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Enterprise software systems, or how diamonds never came from s*it

February 23, 2025

Some time ago, I eventually listened on YouTube to a year-old interview by Guido Penta with Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez) about the art of development in the current age. I agree with some points, specifically that in many cases, multiple developers work for their whole work life on boring/marginal activities. One of them, IMHO, is the entire front-end effort in developing web-based applications, a development task that nowadays could be broadly and proficiently managed mainly via AI to reduce human intervention to minimal parts and architectures.

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