First it was "The End of Programming" two hours ago.

Now this one. Lol

I bounced at the first load-bearing use of load-bearing.

Apparently nobody wants artisanal writing either!

This is so stupid.

Can an accountant make a CRM in a weekend? Sure.

Will it be there next week? Maybe, probably not.

Building software was never, not even once, about writing code. That’s easy, literally anyone can do it.

It’s about building something that lasts beyond needing to be completely refactored.

And I don't want your blog-slop vomit

This is exhausting and would have been a lot easier to read in the more, how to put it, natural writing style the author had until early 2025.

What changed, I wonder? ;-/

If you're gonna slop-write your blog post at least put in the same effort you urge people to make when writing code...

Pot, kettle, something. Karma bot pointing to AI written article complaining about lack of artisanal code.

Huge bloated article that unclearly expresses a simple thought.

It's like the author prompted, "write me a big article on what is and isn't a commodity with AI, and make it confusing"

We need down-vote buttons for slop like this on HN. How can this reach the frontpage?

Since you are reading, here a story of mine. Both me and a friend build a SaaS product using ClaudeCode. We both have 15+ year experience in software (he more in dotNET me more in FLOSS).

He just accepted everything it came up with (pretty much vibe). I was suuuuuuper careful about what I accepted and spend the first weeks programming a lot myself.

His stack for JS was HUUUGE. Several different technologies were used. Mine JS stack was: only use Alpine.js (and avoid JS as much as possible).

His backend stack was equally huge: lots of native/binary OS dependencies bundled in Docker. Mine was 13MB of libs on top of the JVM.

Being one year in I run 3500 tests in 20secs. App boots under 3secs.

He considers rewriting it.

The art(isanal) is still important. Sure it's different now. But MY GOD what a difference a bit of oversight/leadership/tech-vision can make.

I'm glad frontend design skills have moved us away from the generic, inoffensive font families of yesteryear towards the likes of Space Grotesk and a smattering of IBM Plex Mono in places ill-suited to monospace families.