https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CoderKatrinaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 16 May 2026 09:43:03 +0000That sounds so horrible, though. It's akin to people working as COBOL devs because someone has to do it, so they'll get the big bucks. Except I've never heard of anyone who actually likes COBOL and the more I've learned about how mainframe development actually works, the more horrified I've become haha. Dealing with an LLM spaghetti codebase sounds like hell.

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 02:54:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156428CoderKatrinahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156428https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156428It's the new "counting lines of code". I think many companies are so terrified of falling behind that they're irrationally floundering, trying to appear like they're "with it".

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