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> This has traditionally been offloaded by having seniors do the hard thinking then distill it into a jira ticket which could be handed off to an engineer that'
by StableAlkyne 2mo ago
> This has traditionally been offloaded by having seniors do the hard thinking then distill it into a jira ticket which could be handed off to an engineer that'd actually write the code
I wish this were the extent of it nowadays. But for whatever reason, I've seen multiple really promising engineers get a hold of AI tools, and just outsource all of their thinking to it.
The self-infantalization is so bad that I was pair programming with a guy one day (partly to see how he was using AI) and watched him ask Claude if it makes sense to do X for every single decision.
I get using it as a form of linting... But you'll never learn how to be an independent developer if you constantly outsource your decision making. And it's disappointing too, because he was developing so rapidly as an engineer before Copilot came out.
- unified101 2mo ago> ask Claude if it makes sense to do X This is a fantastic way of working with agents in my experience. It's like have a peer architect who can challenge you and help you improve. You're projecting your own feelings and fears by calling it infantalizing.
- StableAlkyne 2mo agoThere is a world of difference between using it as a "peer architect" and outsourcing your entire thought process to it.
- unified101 2mo agoYou're treating asking questions on everything as "outsourcing your entire thinking". It isn't.
- StableAlkyne 2mo agoThis engineer would not do anything without asking the AI first. This includes extremely basic activities type hinting a function that takes a string and returns a string, which I know he knew how to do. Sorry mate, but if that isn't outsourcing one's thinking then we live in different realities.