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  • The second you allow slop generator use into your code base the quality takes a nosedive. People claim to review their slop but I have seen it often enough, all they are doing is hitting accept all without even reading half of the generated code. This isn’t “just a tool” this is technical debt as a service.

    Also Hackernews is ridiculous den of techbros, libertarians, AI maximalists and temporarily embarrassed founders who think they stand to gain the most from hyping up slop generators. Trusting them with anything related to AI is like asking the CEO of Microsoft if you should use Windows or Linux.
















  • Here are a couple of reasons:

    • C and C++ projects often predate Gradle by decades they will not change their build system without a compelling reason.
    • Gradle is written in Java and requires a Java Runtime.
    • At least for C++, CMake has pretty much become the standard build tool.
    • Dependency resolution on Linux was ‘solved’ by relying on the distribution. Today, there also exist package managers for C and C++ like vcpkg or conan and they also integrate with CMake.

  • I know the type. Usually the kind of confident know-it-all who refuses to learn anything but delivers changes really quickly so management loves them. I had the misfortune to fix such a project after that ‘rock-star’ programmer left the company. Unfortunately the lack of professional standards in our industry allows people like that to continuously fail upwards. When I left the project they rehired them and let them design the v2 of the project we just fixed.