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This is pretty much how permanent staff often have to work with consultants/contractors or job-hoppers in some sectors. Shiny new stuff quickly produced, manag
by mellosouls 1y ago
This is pretty much how permanent staff often have to work with consultants/contractors or job-hoppers in some sectors.
Shiny new stuff quickly produced, manager smiles and pays, contractor disappears, heaven help the poor staffers who have to maintain it.
It's not new, just in a new form.
- eloisant 1y agoIn my experience, AI generated code is much higher quality than code written by external service companies. For example it will look at your code base and follow the style and conventions.
- cjfd 1y agoStyle can conventions are very superficial properties of code. The more relevant property is how many bugs are lurking below the surface.
- sussmannbaka 1y agothis just means the bugs it creates are better camouflaged
- karmakurtisaani 1y agoWhat's new though is that now you can do it to your future self!
- izacus 1y agoDon't ignore the difference in scale though. Something happening some of the time isn't the same as happening most of the time.
- p_l 1y agoYeah, LLMs are easier to keep available ;)
- samrus 1y agoThis misallignment of incentives is why we have shitty software in everyday life
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- rednafi 1y agoI love this analogy of consultants parachuting into a project, doing the bare minimum, and passing the baton to the next person to maintain the mess. Leadership is buying into the hype and busy turning everyone into overzealous slopmongers. Companies are pushing an “AI Fluency” framework where people are encouraged (read: forced) to use LLMs and agentic coding in every aspect of development.