davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 hours agoTo DRY or not to DRYlemmy.mlimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1237arrow-down11
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minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down2·9 hours agoC) Write a highly specific, custom-tailored boilerplate generator that does 80% of the work and needs only a day or two to implement.
minus-squareddplf@szmer.infolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 minutes agoThis sounds just extremely dumb to me, as in “do something manually for 2 minutes or spend 2 days automating it” Also, DRY in 90% of the cases is a sham
minus-squarepeteylinkfedilinkarrow-up30·9 hours agoD) spend millions developing an AI to generate the boilerplate generator badly
C) Write a highly specific, custom-tailored boilerplate generator that does 80% of the work and needs only a day or two to implement.
This sounds just extremely dumb to me, as in “do something manually for 2 minutes or spend 2 days automating it”
Also, DRY in 90% of the cases is a sham
D) spend millions developing an AI to generate the boilerplate generator badly