Comment by fastasucan
8 days ago
It makes my work suck, sadly. Team dynamics also contributes to that, admittedly.
Last year I was working on implementing a pretty big feature in our codebase, it required a lot of focus to get the business logic right and at the same time you had be very creative to make this feasible to run without hogging to much resources.
When I was nearly done and worked on catching bugs, team members grew tired of waiting and starting taking my code from x weeks ago (I have no idea why), feeding it to Claude or whatever and then came back with a solution. So instead of me finishing my code I had to go through their version of my code.
Each one of the proposals had one or more business requirements wrong and several huge bugs. Not one was any closer to a solution than mine was.
I had appreciated any contribution to my code, but thinking that it would be so easy to just take my code and finishing it by asking Claude was rather insulting.
I completely understand.
We're in a phase where founders are obsessed with productivity so everything seens to work just fine and as intended with few slops.
They're racing to be as productive as possible so we can get who knows where.
There are times when I honestly don't even know why we're automating certain tasks anymore.
In the past, we had the option of saying we didn't know something, especially when it was an area we didn't want to know about. Today, we no longer have that option, because knowledge is just a prompt away. So you end up doing front-end work for a backend application you just built, even though your role was supposed to be completely different.
This feels similar to the slow encroachment of devops onto everything. We're making so much shit nowadays that there is nobody left but developers to shepherd things into production, with all the extra responsibility and none of the extra pay commensurate with being a sysadmin too.
> Today, we no longer have that option, because knowledge is just a prompt away
Something resembling knowledge anyway. A sort of shambling mound wearing knowledge like a skinsuit
While I agree, I can't deny that AI is doing the job most of the time. But the hunt for the supreme productivity feels disgusting sometimes.
There’s a lot more going on there than AI …
Not really, this is exactly what I expect due to baseless lies from the AI companies and a disdain for employee payroll by the C-suite.
they fantasize about unpaid interns writing specs and nobody ever needed to look at the code in a few years
This seems to be a team problem more than anything? Why are your coworkers taking on your responsibilities? Where's your manager on this?
Could be an emergent team problem that wouldn’t have had cause to exist before AI.
If someone does that simply say “no. use the latest code”
[flagged]
Not really AI problem, more like garbage coworkers.