What Derek Sivers thinks about code generation

@derek-sivers · 44 positions · 3 changes of mind

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books, 550+ articles, and a site at sive.rs he hand-codes and keeps free of advertising.

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1. 15 Oct 2019

   Our readingCode and files generated by tools are pollution: hand-writing them is worth the effort because the bloat slows everything down for everyone.

   Their wordsI prefer coding everything by hand, because I don't like the huge piles of garbage that the automated generators create.

   ↗Digital pollutionsive.rs 1st of 2 in this piece

   Interesting

3. 15 Oct 2019

   Our readingGenerators emit thousands of lines where ten would do, and that waste is why people think their phone is slow.

   Their wordsThese programs that generate a website, app, or file for you spit out thousands of lines of unnecessary junk when really only 10 lines are needed.

   ↗Digital pollutionsive.rs 2nd of 2 in this piece

   Interesting