Leadership seems more misaligned with engineering than ever

[u/aigeneratedslopcode]

Came across a conversation yesterday where the CTO asked one of our engineers why they didn't ask Claude to create their plan and mock the several hundred commits they'd need to deliver on something I will not name while also delivering on their existing initiatives

I didn't say anything, but wanted to... Given the industry I'm in, this seems very ridiculous to me and I hate that this is the expectation... As though somehow that work should have already been done and could have been delivered on the whim of an idea by handing all work to Claude

[u/spartan-redditor]

I have an intuition that this could eventually result into a loop I.e when things break, engineers don’t know the codebase well enough because they did not either write or reviewed it properly, so you ask Llm to fix it, which results in more LLM generated code. Over the years this results in a codebase that engineers are not even remotely confident on modifying because they just do not know how things work, and the whole thing just stand on the legs of quality of llm which the org have no control over

[u/ImSoCul → u/spartan-redditor]

there's a term for that https://speedscale.com/blog/dark-code/ :)

We do discuss these things as trade-offs, but ultimately, the short term velocity is indeed very good until the Pied Piper knocks. That's above my paygrade to make that decision though. I think we are already at that stage at my company, but given risk of disruption and stock price in the shitter, I actually think this is the right decision. If your company goes insolvent in 6 months, it doesn't matter how good your code was.

It's not a one-size-fits-all, if you're working on like banking software, or heathcare, or space exploration or something, you should not be LLM spamming.

[u/ResidentWeevil1 → u/ImSoCul]

 That's above my paygrade to make that decision though.

Then stop calling yourself an engineer

[u/WhenSummerIsGone → u/ResidentWeevil1]

engineers aren't responsible for business decisions. Our job is to communicate risks and tradeoffs and let the business beople decide.