This. I suspect the codebases in the future will be made of a small number of gi...

cjbgkagh · 2026-05-23T14:00:05 1779544805

As a human who typically uses large files, 10k to 30K lines of code files are pretty common, I find the agents don’t read the whole file after the first time, they almost always do a range select for the bit they are interested in.

digitaltrees · 2026-05-26T00:00:04 1779753604

But you wouldn’t argue that a 30k line file is good code would you?

Humans write bad code to. For me the litmus test is: will someone read this in the future. If yes, then write good code.

I don’t think we are in the era when a human will never read the code again in human history. So we should still strive for human intelligibility.

cjbgkagh · 2026-05-26T02:16:11 1779761771

The code I write is good. I don’t write for the lowest common denominator, readers need to be hard core functional programmers as a pre-req.

The great thing about AI is that it’s raising the bar on lowest common denominator.