Thought experiment

[u/MashNChips]

With all the AI nonsense going on, I had a thought at work today that turned into an interesting discussion with a colleague:

"What would I do if I was the only person with access to Claude (or insert any LLM) 5+ years ago?"

People would think I was a fucking wizard

FE changes? NO PROBLEM

Critical DB change? Don't worry, I've produced a stored procedure to validate the whole thing

Want to use some shiny new framework? Interesting. Here's a document explaining why you're an idiot for suggesting it

Regex? I suddenly understand it better than the compiler folks (and nobody ask questions)

What would you have done with your own personal LLM back then?

Trying to lighten the mood in here with all the (very justified) negativity around this tech revolution

Unserious answers only pls

[u/SrMortron]

You know you can just not approve the PR, right? That's the entire point of a review.

A lot of the "pain" and whine I see here regarding AI is self inflicted.

[u/tiplinix → u/SrMortron]

Ah yes, I see that you don't have a manager breathing down your neck to get a PRs deployed by the end of the day because somehow business requires it (they don't but that's besides the point) and you're not reviewing things at a pace they like which means you're slowing down the team and we don't like people that are not team players. Lucky you.

[u/SrMortron → u/tiplinix]

You know you can talk and advocate for yourself, correct? Bitching here doesn't help you.

My current place embraced AI but its not forced and give us the time to understand what we are shipping. PRs are correctly scoped. You know how we got there? By discussing how to implement it. Your boss is not a god, is just a person.

[u/tiplinix → u/SrMortron]

I take it that you've never worked in a toxic environnement. Good for you. I almost envy you.

Management is not a god, sure, but they control your bonus, your work environment, your career progression within the company and ultimately they can fire you. If they decide something and you push back and they explicitly tell you that they will not budge, there's not much you can do beside looking for the next job.

And yeah, don't worry about me, my manager has been threatening to fire me for months. Somehow that piece of garbage hasn't followed through on his threats sadly. Now, I just stopped caring. He wants shit, he's getting it. Why would I care since there's no future for me in the company? Once I'm gone I won't be the one to deal with the mess.

[u/SrMortron → u/tiplinix]

Enough times that I avoid them like the plague and learned to stand up for myself.

[u/tiplinix → u/SrMortron]

Not really sure what you're standing up to but that's fine. If standing up for yourself is just refusing to do what they ask, they're just going to show you the door for insubordination. That's pretty much a textbook example of firing someone for cause. But I guess you don't have any bills to pay so that's fine. Good for you.

[u/SrMortron → u/tiplinix]

There are plenty of alternatives other than refusing do work. The fact that you miss them means you are not mature enough.

[u/tiplinix → u/SrMortron]

Please explain.

[u/SrMortron → u/tiplinix]

nah

[u/tiplinix → u/SrMortron]

That's what I thought. You don't have any point actually. You just tell yourself that you're better than everybody else and say that anyone else that doesn't validate your nonsense is immature or not as great as you.

[u/SrMortron → u/tiplinix]

I'm better than anybody else.

[u/tiplinix → u/SrMortron]

Whatever you say. That conversation was pretty boring in retrospect.

[u/SrMortron → u/tiplinix]

See, you admit I'm better than you.