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Is this a poorly instructed llm? Or a poorly constructed thought?
by RobRivera 2mo ago
Is this a poorly instructed llm? Or a poorly constructed thought?
- a2ff6eeb0 2mo agoIt's lived experience. My management is a lot happier when I move too fast to really pay attention to the problems and use my expertise, and the output is good enough that nobody really complains. Building most software is no longer skilled work; it takes minimal training. The industry just hasn't caught up yet.
- sumanthvepa 2mo agoWell. I own my business and I really hate this attitude that some startups executives have. I want quality. Not blind speed. I want speed to be a by product of a well built product and a system that builds it. Not a bunch of slop thrown over the wall that I have to then debug and fix.
- a2ff6eeb0 2mo agoThe AI is pretty good at debugging and fixing it. It's quite a bit better at it than writing the code, to be honest. And, you're right, I used to enjoy my job a lot more before AI. But in the end, the paychecks keep coming, and I can produce a lot of acceptable code quickly with little skill. Skill in coding no longer makes economic sense.
- bgilroy26 2mo agoThis approach accumulates codebase-understanding debt and the call to pay the piper could come at any time
- a2ff6eeb0 2mo agoMaybe. Challenge for you: take the last 10 production outages, and paste the symptoms into Fable or Opus 5, and ask it for a diagnosis. How many does it one shot in less time than your outage lasted?
- ochronus 2mo agoYup, if you know what to point it at - where does _that_ skill come from? Experience.
- RobRivera 2mo agoOuch, I painfully agree :l