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The culture of the tech industry started going to shit in 2022/2023 after rates were hiked and before LLMs were capable of anything much. There's more toxicity
by pydry 2mo ago
The culture of the tech industry started going to shit in 2022/2023 after rates were hiked and before LLMs were capable of anything much.
There's more toxicity, more waterfall, more authoritarianism, less autonomy, more pressure. Consequently lower productivity, too.
Sometimes AI is just the label that gets slapped on "all the ways the tech industry has changed over the last 3 years".
- dan_q 2mo ago2022/2023 is when the AI wrecking crews came in in full force
- pydry 2mo agoYea there were layoffs blamed on AI even when GPT 3.5 couldnt write a line of code to save its life. That's public relations for you. No exec wants to chalk up a layoff to a faltering company that can't grow sales even if it's not their fault.
- dan_q 2mo agoAt my job in 2023, after the staff engineers quit, new-hire engineers backed by new-hire managers pushed through a series of 5,000-10,000 line GPT 3.5 PRs affecting ludicrously convoluted, critical Makefiles designed and maintained by engineers who had left the company because of AI initiatives. Even when AI couldn't write a line of code to save its life, I watched this company push out its strongest engineering talent to replace a series of well-constructed codebases with subhuman AI slop. They hired a wrecking crew of managers and engineers who were incentivized to ram the AI slop through as quickly as possible.
- alanmoraes 2mo agoWhat happened to the project and to the company?