vBoykis: I'm far more impressed by projects that are smaller, cleaner and more elegant
vboykis · x · 2026-10-14
AI practitioner Vicki Boykis reflects that, after years in industry, she finds herself much more impressed by projects that make things smaller, cleaner and more elegant rather than larger and more distributed.
Less code, fewer PRs, less text — "good compression is an art," she writes. The remark resonates with ongoing debate about bloat versus simplicity in modern AI-era software engineering.
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