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morshu9001 commented on I am happier writing code by hand   abhinavomprakash.com/post... · Posted by u/lazyfolder
jpalawaga · 10 hours ago
Is there something about LLMs that suddenly make grammar and style irrelevant? Is your take, no human is going to read this ever again, so why bother making it pretty and consistent/readable?
morshu9001 · 10 hours ago
It was never relevant, LLM or not. When reviewing junior SWEs' code pre LLMs, I didn't care about 75% of the style guide. I cared if they were using the DB wrong or had race conditions or wrote code I couldn't read.

In other comment, meant that other reviewers who used to nitpick have stopped for whatever reason, maybe because overall people are busier now.

morshu9001 commented on I am happier writing code by hand   abhinavomprakash.com/post... · Posted by u/lazyfolder
woeirua · 11 hours ago
This is no different then carpentry. Yes, all furniture can now be built by machines. Some people still choose to build it by hand. Does that make them less productive? Yes. Will they ever carve furniture by hand for a business? Probably not. Can they still enjoy the act of working with the wood? Yes.

If you want to code by hand, then do it! No one's stopping you. But we shouldn't pretend that you will be able to do that professionally for much longer.

morshu9001 · 10 hours ago
If I'm using the right tools for the job, I don't feel like the LLM helps outside of minor autofilling or writing quick one-off scripts. I do use LLMs heavily at work, but that's cause half the time I'm forced to use cumbersome tooling like Java w/ some boilerplatey framework or writing web backends in C++ for no performance reason.
morshu9001 commented on I am happier writing code by hand   abhinavomprakash.com/post... · Posted by u/lazyfolder
raw_anon_1111 · 10 hours ago
> Even if I generate a 1,000 line PR in 30 minutes I still need to understand and review it. Since I am responsible for the code I ship, this makes me the bottleneck.

I am not responsible for choosing whether the code I write using a for loop or while loop. I am responsible for whether my implementation - code, architecture, user experience - meets the functional and non functional requirements. It’s been well over a decade that my responsibilities didn’t require delegation to other developers doing the work or even outsourcing an entire implementation to another company like a SalesForce implementation.

morshu9001 · 10 hours ago
When I got my first job long ago, I found that code review does involve arguing over things like for vs while loop, or having proper grammar in comments. Thought about quitting for a sec.

Now that I have more experience and manage other SWEs, I was right, that stuff was dumb and I'm glad that nobody cares anymore. I'll spend the time reviewing but only the important things.

morshu9001 commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe   nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm
direwolf20 · 17 hours ago
Like Pokémon?
morshu9001 · 10 hours ago
Yeah those. The other example I had in mind was csgo skins.
morshu9001 commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe   nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm
direwolf20 · 2 days ago
And that's because they're much more responsible with alcohol. Americans get introduced to alcohol as a rebellion from oppression the moment they go to college. Germans have it with dinner with their parents sometimes when they're 12. It's like how Facebook got boring when your parents were on it.
morshu9001 · 21 hours ago
I don't get that impression from Europeans. Also I've had wine at home since I was 12, but still ended up getting completely wasted the first time I had alcohol in college. Pretty sure anyone who's interested in that will do it at some point, and that's the only way to outgrow it.

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morshu9001 commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe   nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm
direwolf20 · 2 days ago
You know it's stupid because you grew up immersed in the message that gambling is bad. Humans don't know that innately. The target audience for these platforms doesn't know it yet. The target audience is still growing up, immersed in whatever message the platform wants to send.
morshu9001 · a day ago
I meant that digital collectibles are stupid
morshu9001 commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe   nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm
thisislife2 · 3 days ago
The only reason the US and Europe are targeting TikTok is because they don't own the platform. Facebook and WhatsApp (owned by Meta) are responsible for so much hate politics and social unrest around the world (Facebook and Genocide: How Facebook contributed to genocide in Myanmar and why it will not be held accountable - https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-ho... ). Amazon, Google and Microsoft helped the Israelis conduct the genocide in Gaza with their AI tools (UN Calls Out Google and Amazon for Abetting Gaza Genocide - https://progressive.international/wire/2025-08-26-un-calls-o... ). But all that's OK.
morshu9001 · 2 days ago
Yeah, I don't like the reason either. They should've just banned TikTok day 1 as reciprocity with China banning our sites. Instead it was allowed until it started promoting wrongthink.
morshu9001 commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe   nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm
enaaem · 2 days ago
Gambling mechanics are also banned for certain ages and in some countries for everyone. We don’t say that it’s just a game, and people should just control themselves. Without going into the specifics of this case, design pattern intervention have existed for a long time and it has been in most cases desirable.
morshu9001 · 2 days ago
And there are grey areas for gambling that have been settled on, like how video game "loot boxes" were recently reconsidered as gambling in some places (besides just being stupid).
morshu9001 commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe   nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm
7tflutter7 · 2 days ago
This argument falls apart in the EU though. Where it's legal for 14 year olds to drink alcohol.
morshu9001 · 2 days ago
That's not because EU countries want people to make their own decisions, it's because not so many people in EU think alcohol is bad for kids.

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