Comment by daxfohl
11 days ago
Businesses too. For two years it's been "throw everything into AI." But now that shit is getting real, are they really feeling so coy about letting AI run ahead of their engineering team's ability to manage it? How long will it be until we start seeing outages that just don't get resolved because the engineers have lost the plot?
From what I am seeing, no one is feeling coy simply because of the cost savings that management is able to show the higher-ups and shareholders. At that level, there's very little understanding of anything technical and outages or bugs will simply get a "we've asked our technical resources to work on it". But every one understands that spending $50 when you were spending $100 is a great achievement. That's if you stop and not think about any downsides. Said management will then take the bonuses and disappear before the explosions start with their resume glowing about all the cost savings and team leadership achievements. I've experienced this first hand very recently.
Of all the looming tipping points whereby humans could destroy the fabric of their existence, this one has to be the stupidest. And therefore the most likely.
There really ought to be a class of professionals like forensic accountants who can show up in a corrupted organization and do a post mortem on their management of technical debt
How long until “the LLM did it it” is just as effective as “AWS is down, not my fault”?
Never because the only reason that works with Amazon is that everyone is down at the exact same time.
Everyone will suffer from slop code at the same time.
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This to me is the point.. LLMs can't be responsible for things. It sits with a human.
Why can LLMs not be responsible for things? (genuine question - I'm not certain myself).
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If you’re just a gladhander for an algorithm, what are you really needed for?