2024-11-19
8 分钟What up nerds?
It's your boy.
I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, November 18, 2024.
Is the love song dying?
Well, thanks to some amazing investigatory and visual work by the folks at Pudding, we now know that modern pop music's treatment of love and romance isn't actually in decline.
Or maybe it is.
It depends on your definitions of love and romance.
Go experience their peace, which is linked up in the newsletter, and decide for yourself what I learned.
I agree more with their hypothetical boomer Bob than I like to admit.
And I just admitted it.
Oh well, let's get into this week's news.
AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive Evan Doyle says what we've all been feeling Quote There is an emerging belief that AI will make tech debt less relevant.
Since it's getting easier to write code and easier to clean up code, wouldn't it make sense that the typical company can handle a little more debt?
The opposite is true.
AI has significantly increased the real cost of carrying tech debt.
The key impact to notice is that generative AI dramatically widens the gap in velocity between low debt coding and high debt coding.
End quote his advice?
Instead of trying to force code gen AI tools to tackle thorny issues in legacy code bases, rely on humans to refactor said code bases until they're manageable enough for AI to operate on them smoothly.
This changes the makeup of modern development teams.
A product should be owned by a lean team of experts focused primarily on the architecture of their code rather than the implementation details, end quote Evan goes on to describe why it's more valuable than ever to have a high quality code base and invest in modular architecture early on to keep your productivity tools producing, up to 21% of job ads may be ghost jobs.