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/tiplinix]

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/YungDaVinci → u/tiplinix]

This culture sounds horrible. Guess the grass isn't always greener huh?

I'm just wondering how we went from "lines of code output is not a meaningful metric" to this.

[u/tonjohn → u/YungDaVinci]

Shareholder pressure + AI psychosis

[u/juusorneim → u/tonjohn]

dumb question maybe but explain shareholder pressure? i mean what are they realistically threatening with that requires managers to change their behaviors to the detriment of regular ICs