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I want append: We have studied. We constantly educate ourselves (I have still not yet managed to work through the entire SICP on my own). Our tools are changin
by tommyage 2mo ago
I want append:
We have studied. We constantly educate ourselves (I have still not yet managed to work through the entire SICP on my own). Our tools are changing constantly. We are juggling information through devops, requirement engineers and customers. We advise daily. We get consolidated if something is complicated to summarize. We do forensics. Constantly under the pressure that some bit rot may open a new urgent bug we have to investigate. Money AND reputation on the line.
It is a damn stressful job.
So if we do our craft, we do it with incremental knowledge. Carefully.
We build community of trust in our free time to get connected and improve. Any new member gets welcomed and onboarded. His knowledge im the future will supplement ours. So we mentor additionally.
Now comes AI. Collects the knowledge and hands it over to anyone. And we know: It is UNSAFE.
Don't get me wrong; I consolidate it now as well, just to keep up with the increasing pressure to investigate. But the thing is:
While we did our craft so that we won't have to touch it in the next five years, the complexity increases every single day. And its out of our hands. If some junior comes in and starts writing decent code with ai it is nice. Until it breaks and AI won't help. Or worse: Gets applied on customer data in the wrong way.
A new ticket for the greybeards (by no means, I am not such).
I think we are on the wrong track.
Using ai decreases my abilities.
It increases the load.
I think we should get twice the salaries.
It has become unbearable.
Could you imagine that your local file server for your family consists of a enterprise database, a key-value store, possibly multiple reverse-proxies, a vector database.... my point beeing: Complexity. Invariants, frameworks to get familiar with... And the tool to supplement the demand is intransparent (but probably deterministic? Idk). It feels just so wrong.