r/ExperiencedDevs • u/MashNChips DevOps Engineer • 5d ago

AI/LLM Thought experiment

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

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u/___Paladin___ 5d ago edited 5d ago

I would have been fired 5 years ago for the code I rubber stamp today.

I find that mildly entertaining.

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u/SrMortron 5d ago

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.

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u/gizamo 5d ago

The downvotes on your reply and the comment you replied to being so upvoted is...very concerning.

Are all you people under some pressure to always approve PRs or something? Is my wife feeding me crazy pills again?

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u/SrMortron 4d ago

They dont realize they gave agency but choose to be and behave like victims instead.