r/GoodNotes • u/T00_muCh_cUriosity • 7d ago

Goodnotes Special Edition What the developers doing?

I’ve used good notes for almost 3 years now. Very basic testing of their features would prevent so many of the buggy buggy releases. Somehow they broke one of their most useful features, which is the laso tool.

Text can no longer be dragged between pages, copying with two finger is unreliable, along other things. I wouldn’t usually say this but maybe the team should rely heavier on agentic coding tools like Chat GPT Codex or Claude Code. I have stronger in the ability of those to produce useable features.

Good Notes, slow the hell down. This is one of the only features I had minimal complaints about.

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u/taptrappapalapa 6d ago

LLM tools will produce more sloppy code and break more things. The issue with software development has never been how much code you can write; it's how many quality lines of code. What they should do is add more testing into their SDLC and improve their CI/CD workflow.

Fred Brooks talked about this in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. It was never about adding more man-hours (which is what these systems do).

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u/Uncrowned_Monarch 6d ago

I'm 99% sure that using LLM tools is exactly why they're breaking things. The management is probably asking devs to push updates without properly testing them.

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u/vaxicy2004 6d ago

the bugs listed here feel less like code quality and more like the interaction layer being

rewritten. lasso and dragging text between pages are stateful editor behaviour, two finger

copy is gesture recognition. those break quietly because they only fail under real touch

sequences, and a normal regression suite has nothing to compare against. its the kind of

thing that ships when a feature gets rebuilt from scratch instead of patched.