<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mmmasterggg</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mmmasterggg</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:54:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mmmasterggg" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmmasterggg in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me, the problem was never the writing of the code. Building something takes care and rigor. Software development got where it is through years of accumulated practice: habits first, then safeguards, then structures that had actually been proven. Now people set the code aside and just describe their problem, and they have no real sense of what comes back, because nobody can review output produced that fast. Nobody is even keeping up with the systems we built to help us keep up. So we ship without quite knowing what we shipped, and the sloppiness follows from that.<p>Isn't that how it's gone before, though? People used to make beautiful furniture by hand and leave something of themselves in it. Now it comes out of a factory, nobody knows exactly which part they made, they just fit pieces together, and it isn't built to last. Software is at that same point: nobody knows exactly what they've made or how. They describe the problem, assume they've found the solution, ship it, and there is no undoing it. The sloppiness will keep compounding. But that is also the point where people start thinking much harder about how to make it good again. A cycle, I suppose.</p>
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