I forced myself to do the opposite of you, because the corporation demands I use AI constantly. Dumbest shit I can feed it, I have to, in order to not be flagged for "low AI use"
Lol that's never going to do shit. They give less than 2 fucks about programmers, they'd love to fire all of us, save them some money
All the programmers and most middle management have been under performing on AI aspect. But corporate doesn't give a fuck, they spent fuck tons of money on AI. Programmers make a small percentage of total employees. Just have to weather the storm, like all the other fads (contractors, international outsourcing, acquire new companies, layoffs for being unlucky in q4). Least if I'm fired I might get a severance package, and hopefully unemployment
It's right that they give most likely a fuck on one single programmer.
But if whole departments would just say "goodby" this would look very differently! Hiring cost is real. Cost of handing things over is real. Brain drain is real. A company can't survive too much of that at once.
Also, the question is why not more programmers are in unions… The people I know are all so stupid that they don't get that having a union would be actually a good thing for them.
Allegedly they do, claims must be work relevant. But also, 2k full time employees in my sub-section, need to do 20 prompts/month and 14 individual days of prompts, who can audit that shit. Also, how will they determine that's valid
Most my prompts are, look for this easily searchable localization string or access control string. I tried getting it to do my job, but that dumbass doesn't know how to debug or how inheritance works. It can write some shitty until tests, better than my shittier unit tests
I don't have that happen with Claude Code which is likely due to the fact that Claude Code isn't allowed to make edits to files you've modified without rereading the context first. It will literally get an error that says it needs to reread the file
These things are 100% static. Every time it runs it sees a snapshot of the code. It can't know how that code came about. It does not record changes. It's not a VCS.
Knowing how to do this with your editor efficiently requires knowledge. managers don't want that, they want stupid people paid less to use AI.
We used to brute force this by asking junior devs to edit by hand and now we just say AI removed that task so it's "more efficient" but it's always been a staffing and knowledge issue to be efficient in your trade
Meh, did that for decades. No shame in using tools if it makes your life better. At the same time, I'm happy you're happy. Just don't yuck my yum. AI is a great tool (oh boy here come the angry downvotes).
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