This is what software development was before LLMs

In retrospect it was miserable

I could simultaneously feel his pain while also attempting to suppress my laughter because of how true all this was. Future video gen sitcoms will look a lot like this revolving around all the myriad ways humans attempted to MacGyver computers together before AI/SI.

I think about this face often

ITS LIKE THIS NOW 😭

man this is so real, it hurts

everytime people act like pre llm code bases were these flawless human crafted masterpieces

It’s so fun now to say hey add this feature and it’s live before end of day. Every day is a joy.

Can confirm

ironically it's even more like this after

Now it’s; “I dunno Claude whoever industry standard is but also look for newer techniques on Google and x searches, use your best judgement, make no mistake, tdd, dry, clean code”

The 2026 version of this is making sense of Claude speak.

The beauty of microservices