.DHH says AI is making it harder than ever to avoid software bloat because the constraints that used to keep software simple no longer exist: “Our task as software builders becomes so much more about distilling it, so much more about killing our darlings, killing features that we think... are good, but are just too much.” “Now in this new age where using agents and AI has made it so much easier to implement things, it becomes that much harder to stick to those principles because we used to be granted these constraints simply by the fact that it took a long time to build things.” “We built the entire first version of Basecamp on me having 10 hours per week. Not per day, per week, to build it. That is an enormous constraint on how you can do anything.” “And the first version was awesome because it had such constraints.” “Now if you have 380 hours together with your 10 agents, you can build a monstrosity like that of something that does a million things for a million people, and therefore that bloat just comes naturally in a way it didn't before.” “Therefore, our task as software builders becomes so much more about distilling it, so much more about killing our darlings, killing features that we think are good, but are just too much.”show more

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