Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth (2001)
Article URL: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv-bloatware-and-the-8020-myth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011185…
Every Abstraction Leaks. Generative AI Is No Exception.
Joel Spolsky gave us the Law of Leaky Abstractions years ago, and it lands hard on the newest layer in software development: generative AI. When you prompt a model to produce code, it builds an abstraction over the implementation. You get working functionality without touching the underlying logic. Great, until the day it breaks.
So what do you do when the abstraction leaks?
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