This is a market and competition driven race to the bottom, a vicious cycle. Everyone knows what is wrong, but nobody dares bet that the other side will slow down. Slow down and you are instantly out. The pace is now measured in weeks or even days. Personally reviewing code or trying to ensure code quality has become a kind of leisure activity, like playing the piano or painting.
I don't think this article adds anything that hasn't already been discussed to death on HN.
LLMs are powerful new tools, and we're all figuring out how to use them effectively. Some developers are getting great results, others aren't. Some instinctively love them, others hate them. Pretty much like every other developer tool HN has argued about, from Lisp to Emacs.
And yes, management often doesn't get it. But that's hardly new either.
This is a market and competition driven race to the bottom, a vicious cycle. Everyone knows what is wrong, but nobody dares bet that the other side will slow down. Slow down and you are instantly out. The pace is now measured in weeks or even days. Personally reviewing code or trying to ensure code quality has become a kind of leisure activity, like playing the piano or painting.
> Personally reviewing code or trying to ensure code quality has become a kind of leisure activity
Jesus Christ. And you still call yourselves engineers? It was a joke already when people valued care and effort in one’s own software.
I guess it's more akin to railroad engineers now... shoving coal and producing a lot of hot air.
> the consensus among executives will be to limit AI usage
I'm guessing doubling down on embracing AI usage is more likely
The boxcars won't even be needed because Americans are so enslaved now that Americans will drive themselves to the concentration camps.
I don't think this article adds anything that hasn't already been discussed to death on HN.
LLMs are powerful new tools, and we're all figuring out how to use them effectively. Some developers are getting great results, others aren't. Some instinctively love them, others hate them. Pretty much like every other developer tool HN has argued about, from Lisp to Emacs.
And yes, management often doesn't get it. But that's hardly new either.