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Wait two years until we have sufficient churn of senior talent in the teams. Then all of the services will have outages daily. Only the seniors who know their
by whatever1 2mo ago
Wait two years until we have sufficient churn of senior talent in the teams. Then all of the services will have outages daily.
Only the seniors who know their systems are keeping the lights on today by keeping bs commits out.
Once they burnout and quit, nobody will have a freaking clue what the LLMs have done and why services are down.
- fra 2mo agoI would take the other side of that bet. In five years, there won’t be more outages than today.
- whatever1 2mo agoDeal. See you here 2031. If the site is still up.
- jaggederest 2mo agoYou can already see a practical example of this in microsoft's issues with Azure. Too many services, too little understanding, everyone left who knows what is going on. There was an interesting article here a little while ago by one of the architects something like "how azure set a trillion dollars on fire" or something like that.
- BLKNSLVR 2mo agoThe answer to all the questions, though, is more AI/LLM usage. Nobody got a freaking clue what the LLMs have done and why services are down? Diagnose it with LLM, and get the lights back on ASAP! I have a similar concern, though. To do my job, I need to understand "the thing". I could outsource the understanding process to AI, but then if I'm asked a question by a developer or tester then I'm essentially stumped / useless because I didn't spend the time to understand the thing, I handballed it. So I then ask the LLM the question I was asked, and pass the answer back (they could have done this themselves though, so where does that leave me? I'm either an AI wrangler, or replaced by someone else who wrangles AI replacing mutliple people in my role). Does my personally understanding the thing actually add value - do the seniors who know their systems add value - in the age of AI/LLM? Does "LLMs all the way down" solve the problems? With the existence of hallucinations I lean towards 'no', but again is that solved by adding layer(s) of LLMs to check for hallucinations?
- misiek08 2mo agoSo you are already sometimes being the „meat proxy”. It only shows one much worse thing - the people asking you are first to blame/for, because they didn’t ask LLM. Maybe it’s temporary and it will change. One added value I see in senior knowing how things work is simple - in case of outage or business incidents (caused by incorrect logic produced by LLMs from even worse prompts or incomplete spec) senior can act faster and answer difficult questions live. Now we are going to have bunch of kids looking at „Hallucinating…” and „Crashing the prod…” status bar in CC CLI. Maybe this is what’s gonna be acceptable and it’s just new world.
- tokioyoyo 2mo agoThis argument comes up during every big layoff season. A good chunk of people pronounced Twitter dead when it got bought out. But software nowadays is pretty stable, despite its perceived jankiness.
- whatever1 2mo agoTwitter is dead. After the layoffs it required multiple bailouts and pivots to its business. Not even sure what X is about today. Layoffs pushed over the cliff the company. Both due to engineering (content is now trash), and product (lost most of the ad revenue)