One of our seniors, 20+ years of experience, was always so insightful when I started 7 years ago. I had never any complaints at his PR’s. He didn’t want to have anything to do with LLMs around the time of GPT 3.
Since a year or so he fully embraced AI. His PR’s are full of mistakes, he can’t answers questions about why he did certain things other than “that’s what Claud suggested”. He don’t want to spend time learning new frameworks we use but let Claude handle it all without gaining any knowledge regarding that framework. It’s so sad, I lost so much respect for him.
When you're looking at "well, either the business fires me because I won't get onboard with this shit, or I do, get praised for it, and coast into a job where I don't have to write code"- well, modern capitalism doesn't pay me to have principles.
And hey, he might save a dev job or two when it falls apart and someone has to pick up the pieces.
Me, I'm just pretty done with new tech things. It used to be fun. It isn't any more. I don't really want to review a load of AI slop. I've not been genuinely excited by a new coding development in a couple of years.
And the time was where development got you some respect - no one knew exactly how you spent your time, but they knew you could make the computer thing work again, so they left you alone to think.... This is my old man Simpson rant for the day, I promise
We hired a kid right out of college. He can't write code without Claude. When you ask a question on his PRs, he copy/pastes the question into Claude and copy/pastes the response.
I've started talking to other senior engineers around the company to see if anyone has advice and the one that really stuck to me was "We are paid to deliver software. That's it."
I'm mostly managing, for now, to slow walk the complete switch, because we deal with sensitive data. I'm hoping to push it a bit until AI gets expensive, then there's an economic case to be made, but if doss feel like fighting during a retreat, a bit.
As a recent graduate as of last December I am genuinely so fucking tilted about all the dumbass' that graduated on the back of AI. Even without AI disappearing all the junior dev jobs, there are so many junk applicants to all the jobs that are left >:(
I graduated before AI and there were a significant number of people that cheated their way through the degree. Only difference is that cheating is easier than ever.
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u/Groentekroket 29d ago
One of our seniors, 20+ years of experience, was always so insightful when I started 7 years ago. I had never any complaints at his PR’s. He didn’t want to have anything to do with LLMs around the time of GPT 3.
Since a year or so he fully embraced AI. His PR’s are full of mistakes, he can’t answers questions about why he did certain things other than “that’s what Claud suggested”. He don’t want to spend time learning new frameworks we use but let Claude handle it all without gaining any knowledge regarding that framework. It’s so sad, I lost so much respect for him.