Ex-Apple engineer misses the permanence of 15-year-old code
When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old
Sean Geiger, a former Apple engineer, reflects on the era when code files were annotated with dates and authors, comparing them to bricks in a house. He contrasts this with today's AI-assisted development, where code appears 'like magic' but lacks the tactile connection. The post sparked a discussion, with Mitchell Hashimoto sharing an AI mishap and others debating whether software quality is declining.
Now you can will whole houses and neighborhoods into existence. You don’t even see the bricks go in. They just tumble in from the sky.