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Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI

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175 points koch | 1 comments | 06 Jul 25 21:01 UTC | HN request time: 1.121s | source
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aaronbrethorst ◴[07 Jul 25 04:52 UTC] No.44486867[source]▶
The vast majority of any interesting project is boilerplate. There's a small kernel of interesting 'business logic'/novel algorithm/whatever buried in a sea of CRUD: user account creation, subscription management, password resets, sending emails, whatever.
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rijoja ◴[07 Jul 25 07:06 UTC] No.44487492[source]▶
Yes so why would you spend tons of time and introduce a huge amount of technical debt by rewriting the boring parts, instead of just using a ready made off the shelf solution in that case.

You'd think that there be someone who'd be nice enough to create a library or a framework or something that's well documented and is popular enough to get support and updates. Maybe you should consider offloading the boring part to such a project, maybe even pay someone to do it?

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1. oc1 ◴[07 Jul 25 09:23 UTC] No.44488353[source]▶
That was a solved problem in the 00's with the advent of Rails, or so i thought. Then came the JS framework craze and everything needed to be reinvented. Not just that, but frameworks which had all these battle-tested boring parts were not trendy anymore. Micro framworks became the new default and idiots after idiots jumped on that bandwagon only to reimplement everything from scratch because almost any app will grow to a point where it will need authn, user mgmt, mail, groups and so on...