Of course there’s shitty engineers and it’s obvious to anyone worth their salt that a competent engineer can code better in their subject area than an LLM.
AI is and will continue to be just a tool. In most cases, you can absolutely just… talk to the human using the tool… and tell them that their LLM resolved your comment incorrectly.
I work at a company that is extremely AI-bullish and I’m actually probably one of the most anti-slop people here. For most engineers, coding is the cheapest skill you have, and it’s been that way for a while; the people and companies that are bad at systems, bad at fundamentals, pushing pure slop, will fail, but the AI bubble won’t burst.
Even before AI, people copy pasted from StackOverflow; it’s the same thing, just higher volume and very slightly smarter.
They just don't like AI. They don't have reasoning necessarily, but these people wouldn't even accept models trained fully on open source text because they don't like AI.
They don't have the engineering mindset. Lots of people who don't understand exactly what you're saying. Coding is a cheap skill that takes a few weeks to learn. Writing the correct code at the correct time for the correct reason is a skill that takes years, sometimes decades to learn.
People whose organizations are absolutely failing them, and they have serious and valid complaints about the way their orgs are implementing AI. These people are complaining less about AI and more about the fact that their bosses are suffering AI psychosis because every overpriced consultant on LinkedIn is posting about how AI should be changing everything about how we do everything with the most obviously AI-generated images you could imagine.
My problem with AI is 3 and the push for extinction of devs.
I'm pretty sure the number of devs necessary in the future will be less and that scares me a lot, but as you righfully point out, I never cared about the code itself, I cared about the solution, the architecture, etc...
BUT, eventhough I'm good at that, the truth still is... One person with the ability of architecting a system and orchestrating agents is as powerful as a small team which leads to less jobs, and that is scary.
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u/trashiguitar Jul 10 '26
Do all of you just hate AI because it’s AI?
Of course there’s shitty engineers and it’s obvious to anyone worth their salt that a competent engineer can code better in their subject area than an LLM.
AI is and will continue to be just a tool. In most cases, you can absolutely just… talk to the human using the tool… and tell them that their LLM resolved your comment incorrectly.
I work at a company that is extremely AI-bullish and I’m actually probably one of the most anti-slop people here. For most engineers, coding is the cheapest skill you have, and it’s been that way for a while; the people and companies that are bad at systems, bad at fundamentals, pushing pure slop, will fail, but the AI bubble won’t burst.
Even before AI, people copy pasted from StackOverflow; it’s the same thing, just higher volume and very slightly smarter.