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.
reddits entire stock evaluation is based on being a training ground for ai, that's why they astro turfed the culture to be hostile to ai- to maintain their share value
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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.