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		Wowfunhappy 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kerne... Isn’t trying to remove boilerplate how we end up with situations like left-pad? I actually think I like the idea that, maybe by handling my boilerplate over to AI we can be more comfortable with having boilerplate to begin with.

abathologist 4 months ago [–]

> Isn’t trying to remove boilerplate how we end up with situations like left-pad?

No. That is a result of bad software engineer practices and stacks, not a symptom of proper abstraction.

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