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Comment by kscarlet | original | Grieving the loss of details
[−]kscarlet · 2026-10-11 Sun 01:21 UTC · link
In many case it is the sheer accidental complexity. I tried to get into Linux codebase and gosh it's so much harder than FreeBSD. And Chromium, LLVM... I don't believe it has to be that way. I use Common Lisp software (besides Emacs) written by human for anything I can and these have always been a joy to use or work with.

It seems the way industry is heading towards wrt LLM will make this even much, much worse.

[−]bitwize · 2026-10-11 Sun 04:38 UTC · link
Common Lisp, eh?

Y'know, the last AI hypecycle was loads more fun than this one is...