Comment by blibble
6 days ago
> Whats nuts is watching all these people shill for something that we all have used to mediocre results.
this sort of post is the start of next phase in the battle for mindshare
the tools are at the very best mediocre replacements for google, and the people with a vested interest in promoting them know this, so they switch to attacking critics of the approach
> Its kinda sad to watch what I thought was a good company shill for AI.
yeah, I was sad too, then I scrolled up and saw the author. double sadness.
If you really think that feel free to continue with business as usual. I just hope you're not at a stack ranking company, or you are politically savvy though, because otherwise you're going to be in for a real shock in the next few years as your peers build their AI skills, tooling matures and models improve. A skilled dev with a well tuned agentic workflow can already finish non-trivial 5k LoC projects in a day, complete with copious tests and documentation, just imagine when the ecosystem has matured and the majority of your coworkers are hip to the game.
>hip to the game.
Thats the crux.
copious tests - That don't work but no one cares.
documentation - That no one has or ever will read, and is hilariously inaccurate.
There is a lot of software pre AI that is churned out because some manager wanted exactly what they wanted but it had no purpose or need. I expect that to explode in the coming years for sure. I'm not afraid of AI, its merely ok, another tool is all.
It will allow companies to dig themselves very deep holes. Devs wise to the game will be able to charge astronomical fees to empty the pools filled with the AI sewage they have been filled with.
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Not everyone else is going to be out though, just the people who don't rise with the tide. Now is the time to understand where the tools are going, what humans are likely to still be better at (probably what and why, definitely not how), how that's going to impact what it means to be a developer, and how you can expand/broaden your skillset to continue to have a niche when your technical skills are devalued. Adapt or die.
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