The user you're responding too lists a "blood test viewer" [0], which looks to be a tool that turns his blood test PDFs into structured and analyzed data. You're saying that unless he continuously revises/upgrades the code, it's still "abandonware" even if it meets his needs for the near future?
replyBit rot is real. The dependencies listed here include calling into AI APIs that will stop working with time. So yes if no one keeps this up to date it will rot into useless likely very quickly.
replyThat’s not even mentioning that this tools doesn’t do much beyond wrap a call to Claude. And it’s using Claude to display blood test data to the end user. This is not something I’d trust an LLM to not mess up. You’d really want to double check every single result.
Also humans are not bots.
replyWe hate having to feel like we have to double check everything. We have an asymmetric relationship with gains and losses etc.
Is it me or is this stuff flying over peoples heads?
Just saying, you can paste the sample report into ChatGPT and it does the same thing, and even creates interactive graphs for you. Im not sure how useful something is if a chatbot can do it, with the side benefit of being able to ask for follow up questions.
replyi guess the custom UI makes you believe you can trust the output, as if there’s any thought going into it rather than just an LLM hallucinating for you
replyMissing the point. I no longer need to buy or rely on someone else for software I want to use. A lot of things I want to do ARE one offs. I can write software and throw it away when I'm done.
replyI know this sounds sarcastic but I really mean it: For years everyone has been monastically extolling some variation of "the best code is deleted code". Now, we have a machine that spits out infinite code that we can infinitely delete. It's a blessing that we can have shitty code generated that exposes at light speed how shitty our ideas are and have always been.
replyA nicer framing is original ideas and original thinking in general is very hard and doesn't come around very often.
replySteve Jobs once said a thing about the belief that an idea is 90% of the work is a disease. He is and was absolutely right.
You still need to spend plenty of time verifying they work though unless it’s something where that truly doesn’t matter.
replyAbandonware is what the customer wants.
replyConstant enshittification and UI redesigns are driven by the provider to justify monthly extortion.