Comment by big_hacker
2 hours ago
How does Hacker News work if absolutes like this opinion are the top comment people read first?
Why not say outright that "ideological friction" is about AI usage? Maybe some devops have friction cause when things break at 2am and they get called up they don't want to dig through 500k lines of slop the author can't explain?
And "empty 99% of the backlog everyday" <-> "hire more people to fix the bugs" is illogical. Reviewing slop and fixing bugs make me want to go build houses instead of software.
No one ever got a 2am call to fix something before AI was around! And DevOps understood every line and could fix it quickly (though one wonders how it broke in the first place?).
Meanwhile, back in reality, DevOps now have a tool to help them sort through the slop that already exists.
So, go build houses, nobody cares. But go ahead and try and slow their process down with "the way you like to do things", see how that goes.