These last ten years I was really enjoying what Microsoft and its .NET teams were doing. Felt like a good community to be a part of. Huge strides to make things run anywhere and be more involved with the open source community.
While that hasn’t necessarily gone away, jamming LLM’s into everything is leaving a real sour taste. Pointless copilot button anywhere and everywhere. VS and VSCode pushing the GitHub copilot chats and agents.
We are quickly back to the corporate MSFT that doesn’t listen to its users or employees. All that good will has been washed away and now I feel the need to switch off of Windows.
Theres a fundamental minimum amount of boilerplate you just have to write to make a functioning app, even if its simply just describing “this thing does this”
For example, if Im making a web api, theres just fundamentally a chunk of boilerplate that wires up “This http endpoint points to this domain logic over here”
And then theres gonna be some form of pre-amble of describing “it takes in this input, it returns this response, and heres all its validation”
And while its simple code, and its very simple to test, its still a buncha LOC that any half assed dev can write.
Stuff like that AI can shit out very quick given an input requirements doc that you, the dev, were gonna get anyways
And then you, the dev, can fill in the actual logic that matters after all that basic boilerplate stuff.
“Yes, it has a phone number input, its required, and it must fit the phone number regex we defined. So… shocker, you gotta put a string called PhoneNumber on the inptu model, and another shocker, its gotta have the phone number validation on it and required non empty string validation on it”
It doesnt take much trust to put into the LLM to get that sorta stuff right, but it saves me a whole bunch of time.