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I miss when programmers were lazy.

2026-06-04 Science & Technology
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Being lazy when programming is good actually Thank you Depot for sponsoring! Check them out at: https://soydev.link/Depot SOURCES: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/ Want to sponsor a video? Learn more here: https://soydev.link/sponsor-me Check out my Twitch, Twitter, Discord more at https://t3.gg S/O @Ph4seon3 for the awesome edit 🙏

Top Comments (10)

@user-yg2gw4je8d 2026-06-04

37,000 lines a day? No worries, mate. I'll write a 100-line function that connects to ChatGPT's API and uses it to create a 36,900-line DocBlock describing its own functionality in detail.

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@felixallistar 2026-06-04

"antipatterns, like the entire language of go" lold

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@jakeparker918 2026-06-05

A mentor of mine advertises himself as lazy; he helped create the WebRTC spec.

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@jsalsman 2026-06-05

LLMs absolutely act lazy, when they would otherwise exceed their output windows, and not just by pausing midstream either.

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@MrJloa 2026-06-05

Laziness is the fuel of progress.

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@user-hk3ej4hk7m 2026-06-05

"anti patterns like the entire language of Go" lmaooo

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@RichardHabeeb 2026-06-05

At my last job there were two senior engineers who called total lines of code added their KD ratios. Every line deleted is a kill, every line added is a death. Adding 37,000 lines of code in a day would get you fired.

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@exp2745 2026-06-05

Garry Tan, who has been particularly insufferable ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶L̶L̶M̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶ Fixed it, dude will have singularly put YC six feet under. Delve and it being forced down the throats of batches, plus, actual fraud not being what finally got them kicked out are symptoms of a larger problem...

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@RodrigoGarcia-o4y 2026-06-05

Really interesting video and refreshing from the usual “this model came out and it’s mind blowing” video

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@Phobos11 2026-06-05

I worked at Sun. Bryan Cantrill is one of the smartest people I’ve ever met, amazing guy

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