Comment by rufasterisco

"AI speedtracks bullshit shops into bullshit factories" is the other side of "AI enables efficiency gains beyond immagination". As a freelancer I get to see both in action.

No surprise! Do you rememeber agile? Sometimes it was pragmatically applied towards efficiency, sometimes it became a bullshit religion full of priest and ceremonies. And on i could go, with more examples, the gist stays the same : new tools, speed increase, faster crash or faster travel depends on the trajectory the company/team/project/thing was already on.

A special note on "People who cannot write code are building software." "Fuck yeah" to that! Devs has shipped bad software to people in other departements/domains, for ages. They would never build something better if what they had was good in the first place.

When we (coders/startups) were doing it it was "innovation", now is "elephants in the china shop"? And this is not a rethorical snappy question: that IS innovation, instead of critizing the "wrong schema" ... understand the idea, help build it and do the job: ship code that works and is safe.

Also, grey-beard here, pls, don't think you can ever have a stable job especially when code is around. It keeps changing, it always has, it always will. AI bringing unprecedented changes is hype. The world always changed fast.

If "you" picked software development because of salary, you are in danger. If you did it because you love it, then tell me with a straight face this is not one of the best moments to be alive.