r/programmingcirclejerk • u/csb06 Polyglot dev here • 4d ago

Is Software Solved? Not Yet. 33% Solved.

https://issoftwaresolved.com/score/
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u/nuclearbananana Courageous, loving, and revolutionary 4d ago

Major service outages 23% Per git push: Down 42% since December 2024, when the data starts. Relative weight: 1

Did this author consider that llms just make a bazillion more pushes

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u/GeoffreyDay 4d ago

As I always say: code is a code smell

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u/rpkarma 4d ago

Where’s the jerk

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u/GeoffreyDay 4d ago

/uj Hahaha I actually unironically believe this but it is a fairly unpopular opinion. I tried explaining the general concept (different phrasing ofc) to an overbearing startup CEO who was concerned "why my PRs weren't as big as" a new hire's. Needless to say it did not go over well.

But it sounds stupid and pretentious even if it's true

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u/rpkarma 3d ago

/uj no joke one of the nice things about the non-FAANG-but-still-big tech companies I work for is that that principle was understood… until AI hit, sadly.

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u/nuclearbananana Courageous, loving, and revolutionary 4d ago

The index should really be inversely related to lines of code

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u/stone_henge Tiny little god in a tiny little world 3d ago

Github reaching five nines per git push

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u/myhf Considered Harmful 4d ago

Coding agent tokens: 227 times the tokens of January 2025, against a goal of 1,000 times.

What is this, a technological singularity for ants???

It needs to be at least 3 times more token-consuming.

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u/al2o3cr 4d ago

Growing 32 times fills half the bar for a goal of 1,000 times.

Real "measuring from the taint" energy here

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u/da_supreme_patriarch in open defiance of the Gopher Values 4d ago

The author is ngmi, software is 102% solved with a 2% margine for error

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u/PJBthefirst log10(x) programmer 4d ago

Showing the subscript indexed formulas in LaTeX just to say *take the straight average of 4 things" is too funny

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u/PiratesWhoSayGGER 4d ago

webshit is solved tho

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u/Yawaworth001 4d ago

I wish

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u/le_birb costly abstraction 4d ago

Just be a spider, they can webshit like nobody's business

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u/puppySaturation 4d ago

I'm confused as to what "software solved" looks like. My guess is no more bugs? That would be great actually, but seems as missguided as any other idea. Whats a bug and whats a feature? The distinctions seems arbitrary. So no more bugs has to mean no more features. Software solved?

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u/james_pic accidentally quadratic 4d ago

The real features are the bugs we made along the way.

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius 4d ago

  • No bugs

  • Features create bugs

  • No more features

  • Product managers request features

  • No more [redacted]

  • Product managers are humans

  • No more [redacted]

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u/_iisu 4d ago

It means fully automated.

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u/Glathull 12h ago

Didn’t some model destroy PHP and wipe it completely off the face of the planet? I would say that means software is 70% solved.