jensarvidsson

> Then think about all the software you used 10 years ago. How much has changed? For me, not a lot.

This rings true for me as well. We got so good at fast innovation cycles in the digital space that we ran out of brain juice way faster than in the "world of atoms". Our constraints now are good ideas, and we haven't gotten better at getting them

"And if it turns out that you have a team or an organization where people simply do not spend a lot of time thinking or worrying about formatting, then an auto formatter might absolutely outperform the median outcome without it."

I think this is really true - the auto formatter is not the best possible formatting, it's just the baseline level of care that someone bothered to automate. Peak insanity was reading max 80 line length React and i never want to go back to it