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What I'm getting at was covered in an article yesterday about the end of abstraction. There's an argument being made for layer-free software, where everything is one big blob of code, created and understood only by an LLM. The software is modified only by re-prompting.

There are a lot of people edging around this concept, but it's not solid yet.

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Can you point to any place/post making this argument? I'm an active lurker here, and have not seen anyone arguing for layer-free/blob-of-code type of workflow.

The fact that some teams find themselves there is simply a realization of what I stated - inactive maintainership by not taking code reviews seriously.

I saw that go by on YC two days ago, and it scrolled off fast enough I can't find it. They were talking specifically about AI tools, as in avoiding harnesses and letting the LLM do more of the job.

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