And now the narrative has shifted to doing things fast without understanding. Otherwise you’ll be antiquated and outclassed.
It is true. I feel left behind—like I don’t belong in a world infested with ai slop.
And now the narrative has shifted to doing things fast without understanding. Otherwise you’ll be antiquated and outclassed.
It is true. I feel left behind—like I don’t belong in a world infested with ai slop.
We’re still here. What you’re describing as missing is still here. We have lives, experiences and wants that may differ, but we exist and the people we love and respect are also here. Here is the world.
True. The people around you IRL become an echo chamber and fool you into thinking that it is missing nowadays.
So many send me ai slop in chats, go on endless speeches about how they wrote an email, created a poster in 1 minute with chatgpt etc.
I started working on a side project recently with a dev on the condition that he would code without llms. We were aiming for very generous deadlines. But the quality and style of the code were horrible and inconsistent. It was as if each change was written by an amnesiac or a different intern who didn’t read the rest of the code.
I confronted him about it and he admitted to using llms from the start. Turns out he was spending 20-30 min a day generating ai slop and creating PRs. His response was “who cares the code is readable and it works.”
The response to that is “it’s not readable and it isn’t consistent, which is going to turn this into a nightmare when something breaks later and the code needs to be reviewed or revised”
Anyone who has ever had to support code for even a year after it goes live should have some experience dealing with the results of poor earlier choices and leaning on “it works, that means it’s good”.
Software design, hell even basic scripting, does not end at the minimum viable product, treating it as such is a recipe for future disaster. These sorts of people will lean on “well I’ll have the AI fix it”, ignoring that they’re effectively playing tech debt russian roulette with multiple bullets in the revolver cylinder.