tumbling4986@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoLinus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Codewww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down153file-text
arrow-up1-23arrow-down1external-linkLinus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Codewww.phoronix.comtumbling4986@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square27linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePattyMcB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-210 days agoI look at it like COBOL coding. In 20 years they can call me out of retirement and pay me a boatload to maintain the garbage mess that is all that’s left.
minus-squareschipelblorp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 days agoIs there any amount of money that can unfuck a codebase after 20 years of rot?
minus-square🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 days agoNo, but they don’t know that yet.
minus-squarePattyMcB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 days agoAt that point it would just be “keep it alive until the replacement is ready”
I look at it like COBOL coding. In 20 years they can call me out of retirement and pay me a boatload to maintain the garbage mess that is all that’s left.
Is there any amount of money that can unfuck a codebase after 20 years of rot?
No, but they don’t know that yet.
At that point it would just be “keep it alive until the replacement is ready”