Rauch: Copy and paste is always better than a bad abstraction
Guillermo Rauch · No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch · Aug 30, 2023 · at 33:05
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch discusses how AI code generation is shifting engineering preferences away from package managers back toward inline code copying.
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“There's a great phrase that I love, which is copy and paste is always better than a bad abstraction. And a lot of the worst code bases are the ones that are over abstracted.”
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