Comment by Tade0
1 day ago
LLMs reduced interest on tech debt, but it's still there and people who have a tendency to acquire it will go bankrupt eventually.
1 day ago
LLMs reduced interest on tech debt, but it's still there and people who have a tendency to acquire it will go bankrupt eventually.
"The code market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." will probably be a thing.
That's certainly what I expect to happen. LLMs will ruin your software if you don't hand-hold them, but it'll take time for that to happen. And until that does happen, businesses hell bent on using them won't have anything to push them into realizing what a mistake it was to use them.
Two imagined executive responses:
1. "Nonsense, if it was a code-quality issue from the AI stuff, we'd have seen problems sooner, like in the first few months or a year. Oh, sure, some engineers complained, but that was just an adjustment period because they stopped once we told them we didn't care and mandated that they up-skill into the new AI-centric workflow future."
2. "The bold new AI initiative I put into place can't possibly be wrong, this failure is on the engineers who were responsible for overseeing its operation. This is supremely disappointing because we made their jobs so easy, they no longer have to write code, just review several dozens of pages per day with unremitting paranoid vigilance and attention to detail."
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