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Those scripts work, until they don't and the people who generated them cannot even ask the right questions to an LLM, and people who can actually maintain them
by egeozcan 2y ago
Those scripts work, until they don't and the people who generated them cannot even ask the right questions to an LLM, and people who can actually maintain them get overwhelmed by the side-quests of keeping them in order, because everything that gets some use become a dependency for the business.
- cpursley 2y agoSo we're not losing our jobs?
- egeozcan 2y agoOnly time can tell.
- jeltz 2y agoMaybe long term we will lose our jobs but medium term there will be huge demand for people who can clean up the mess which was created by people who used AI to generate code without understanding what they did.
- rob74 2y agoThe only question is: does anyone want to do that job (and I doubt that the "maintenance" job will be better paid than the job for originally writing the code)?
- jeltz 2y agoI think it will be well paid but not fun at all. I have done similar work and at least cleaning up after bad human developers is often well paid. But time will tell.
- lelanthran 2y ago> at least cleaning up after bad human developers is often well paid. I wish! "This was written by Bob, who's a certified genius. Unfortunately Bob left us to go backpacking across Chile. Can you make just this one tiny change for us? ... What do you mean, billing for a full day? Bob used to be able to dive right in and make changes like this in 5m!"
- GreenWatermelon 2y agoSigh... This os exactly the curse... Bad coders leave managers with wrong expectations and saddle us with their smoldering piles of garbage and now we have to convince Mr. Manager why we it's impossible to match Mr. Monkey's pace. We are literally stuck paying off someone else's debt, and it's soul crushing, because you know Mr. Manager won't understand anything technical, and the true culprit, Mr. Code Monkey is already long gone, and we are the sucker holding the bag, getting blamed for late features and slow delivery. The life lesson I learned is: don't pickup someone else's code, you'll assume all liability.
- the_duke 2y agoThe solution is obvious of course: just train an LLM that is intimitely familiar with the product and integrate it directly! ...