Comment by criley2
7 hours ago
Almost! We are certainly on the precipice of the vast majority of white collar work being removed from the loop.
However, what each domain will tell you (engineering included) is that AI doesn't understand the full context of what you're doing and the point of the business and where to spend effort and where to cut corners. There is definitely still room for competent engineers to iterate here on the solutioning and plans to refine the AI work into something more sturdy.
Although this is only in domains where code quality truly matters. A lot of consumer software without SLA's are just vibe coding full speed now. No code review, AI writing 100% of the code.
Judging by what I've seen recently, 100% LLM code is often buggy and not that great. I'd say code quality truly matters in all domains
What a utopia, where code quality matters in all domains!
In my opinion nearly the opposite is true: modern business solves for the "minimum viable quality". What is the absolute lowest quality the software can be and not tank the business.
If you could prove what "minimum viable quality" actually was this would be true. We have standards and procedures exactly because it is unknowable. One engineers idea of "good enough" might bankrupt the business.
Maybe you're different, but I prefer to write code that at least attempts to be performant, tidy and readable, as well as working at least 90% of the time. Maybe I don't achieve perfection, but I try to care about the quality of what I write
> What a utopia, where code quality matters in all domains!
It does. The degree may not, though.
"We have a threshold of at least 5 hours total uptime every 24 hours" is still a quality bar, even if it is different to "We have a threshold of 99.99% uptime per year".