Fixing tech debt is more a people/commercial problem than a technical one. You just had to send a report to one guy, but that guy has to spend ridiculous amounts of energy convincing execs and stakeholders that it is worth breaking their current real workflows for a future imaginary payoff. Piling AI on the broken establishment model is relatively more appealing. That Principal might have just done you a favor you didn’t realize.

Just upload ye olde tarballs onto your static raw-HTML-coded site like the classic programmers (like the legendary Monsieur Bellard) do.

LOL, try this attitude when working on a job where (thanks to LLMs) management expectations are now updated for you to ship at twice the speed or more and see how long you last

It’s honestly remarkable that LLM code generators are somehow succeeding in making writing software easier where graphical RAD tools failed. Frontier software dev engineers may argue it to be useless for complex tasks but the regular analyst or officeman is definitely better off for internal CRUD use cases that’d earlier would have required them to consult the dev team.

Just don’t use IM apps to communicate with clients? I have always only known to do official communications over email. Is this not a universally well-established convention?

You don’t need AI for headless apps; you can (and often should) just forego a dedicated UI if existing platforms are a simpler approach. E.g. in most Indian cities we book metro/subway tickets not through an app, but over a WhatsApp text with a simple bot.

The orange techbro forum site (news.ycombinator.com) is built on a Common Lisp backend (it used to be a Racket-based DSL before). IIRC Grammarly is (was?) also written in Common Lisp.

They’re actually acknowledging this in their latest blogpost

Author likely isn’t talking about generic chatbot use, but about agentic systems that are being pushed for automating everything to the point you don’t have to touch your keyboard or move cursors anymore.