Oct 12, 2026, 10:30 PMStill, this is at the level of Hypothesis
Mostly what I'm sure about is that productivity in software development is already pretty poorly measured, so it's hard to make statements about one way or another
We've known for decades that lines of code is a bad measure but you'll still see people who should know better talking about how great their agents are in terms of LoC
Oct 12, 2026, 10:30 PMI think in aggregate it's likely that what we're doing right now, as an industry, is stressing everyone TF out and spending a bunch of money without actually... getting much of anything out of it
Oct 12, 2026, 10:31 PMWe're at the part of the Hype Cycle where MongoDB is the Future because it's Web Scale even though obviously a lot of datasets are... relational... and so should be modeled with... a relational database
@nat
OMG i haven't heard webscale in a while (didn't scale well, i assume). The comparison fits well and I tend to agree with the hypothesis. I will counter the AI-webscaleys with that like it is a fact. If they ask for proof, I ask for proof of their case.
Also, I assume every dev has caught a slop-grenade by now. I know I have. So anecdotal evidence (yeah...) is available.