OnlyMe
nixCraft 🐧Lmao.
Viss
Bill@Sempf @nixCraft i have a longwinded take. the tl;dr is that if theres a 1:1 ratio between a human with chops and an llm hunter s thompsoning it up, the human serves as a sort of water treatment plant, to literally sort out the shit. the second it turns llm -> llm it goes dogshit insanity instantly. if the human isnt elder god mode, they are an inneffective shitfilter, and shit makes it 'into prod'. its a huge mess.
EVHaste
diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱I have always admired and respected the carefully engineered Unix code over the decades. It has always been lightweight, modular, fork, easy to debug, and audit. Then we have large companies breaking rules and boundaries, AI only being the latest and largest slopfest of exploitable bloat. What will their next generation of slop be after this AI chaos crashes and burns 🫠
Amin Girasol@dianea @nixCraft fusion is my guess. It's already happening.
Like LLMs, fusion doesn't have to deliver. It only has to function as an object of hype for a few years.
See the "our investors" panel at https://www.helionenergy.com/team/
AccordionBruce@fluidlogic @dianea @nixCraft
Whatever they can reduce/ignore regulations on to pretend they’re “innovating” when they’re just making ways for the wealthy to slosh their billions around
It’s a MacGuffin economy
Ideally whatever they choose has no material impact on the world at all
If they took all their money out of real estate and invested trillions in imaginary invisible fairy dust, we could all afford houses
And they could keep tallying up winners in their game of biggest hoarder
gokayburuc@nixCraft The office workers' minds are now as clear as a blank sheet of paper.Because their weekly meetings have been replaced by activities involving cleaning up AI's slop code.While in the past the discussion was how to solve the problem in the first place, now the discussion is how to clean up the solution provided by AI.Zero thought about the job itself, but 10x more workload.
Human 3500@nixCraft
"Your org rarely has good ideas".
That will be written on the tombstone of many companies drinking the computer written code Kool aid.
Dekkia
Paul_IPv6
Solarbird 
@nixCraft For future reference as needed:
Screencapped post to Reddit made 2026/2/17. Link to post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1r6olcv/an_ai_ceo_finally_said_something_honest/
Original post by Dax Raad made on Twitter on 2026/2/14, here's an xcancel link as we do not allow links to X from here: https://xcancel.com/thdxr/status/2022574719694758147
Matchko Klahs@nixCraft pages upon pages of generated documents that i had to review this year alone is not even funny.
i can deal with fragmented, poor quality draft notes produced by humans.
but i am sincerely struggling with all my colleagues now being able to turn their bullets into a thesis that to me is a minefield of tiny little errors and inaccuracies i need to catch and disarm.
this is not making me, or them, more efficient. it just produces more stuff that doesnt need to be there.
Avi Rappoport (avirr)
Internet Rando@nixCraft In the 50's & 60's, when Programming™ was invented (Lady Lovelace notwithstanding), the primary observation to come out of the experience was that 1/3rd of the time was spend coding, and 2/3rds of the time spent debugging.
Now, with LLMs, you can spend 3/3rds of the time debugging! :D
Donald Hobern
Urzl@nixCraft It's all the better that the AI bubble comes right as the Epstein-Trump cabal is outed. I have even less motivation to do shit now that I know it's *all* being used to finance the worst abuses and evil in the world.
Nobody making more than $500k annually can be trusted even slightly.
synlogic4242@nixCraft "Dax Raad" now theres a name I can trust is a real person, in this era
Niko Trimmel@synlogic4242 @nixCraft it certainly sounds like a self-chosen "artist name", but Raad is an Arabic/Levantine surname. Dax could be a nickname for David/Dawoud, Donald,.. – or in this day and age, even a full given name.
Sounds pretty interesting in english for real though
Siim Ošur
The Lack Thereof 
@nixCraft
Accurate.
Amortized across a whole sprint, I spend, like, 1 hour a day *actually writing code*.
THIS IS NOT THE BOTTLENECK!!!
Frank Skornia@nixCraft Wow. Point 2: "they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life" being presented as a con. LOL!
Now the trick will be to sustain that attitude without planet and brain burning LLMs
Quinn Comendant@nixCraft FWIW, the source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thdxr_everyones-talking-about-their-teams-like-activity-7428340867364581377-FOdx
Reality Check: Team Efficiency and AI Adoption | Dax ⠀ posted on the topic | LinkedIn
everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping - majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life - they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend - the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon - even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real - your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills | 10 comments on LinkedIn
Agax
Bogdan Buduroiu@nixCraft I'm gonna be cynical here and say, this whole argument assumes that software engineering is still a highly paid career and there's not enough engineers to fill vacancies.
That's not true anymore. A team of two capable engineers with Claude Code and taste(TM) can outbid most entrenched consultancies.
Most SWE is plumbing the same 3 SaaS-es together.
SWE cost is down some wild percentage, idk but let's say 70%.
In these conditions, your top performers won't quit because there's no seats left in the musical chairs game.
In these conditions, your bottom performers won't be demotivated because rent is due every month
Mu@budududuroiu @nixCraft if Claude winds up making a lot of code, there is probably going to be a lot of nursemaid work to keep it functioning. This could mean a boom in maintenance and upgrading engineers who might well make bank.
@mu @nixCraft I do think so too, but
1) I think only the top percentile of engineers will manage to get those gigs and complete them in time for the clients to be satisfied and for it to be economically viable (you can probably charge someone $5k to undo a vibe coded mess as a one time fee, charging hourly wouldn't be worth it, client probably wants a solution within days)
2) this will still massively reduce the demand for SWE (good, the industry was oversupplied anyway)
Adam Williams@slotos @nixCraft
"""The good ideas claim is so on point."""
I dunno, I am deep in the heart of a Rust Belt industry, and I have seen a __LOT__ of good ideas go by.
Good ideas are not that uncommon.
Bringing a Good Idea through the Life Cycle into being a product, and THEN effectively delivering it to the market? __THAT__ is extremely difficult, as that requires a wide range of skills to be deployed simulanteously. And almost all organizations have something critical which they are bad at.
"""The good ideas claim is so on point."""
I dunno, I am deep in the heart of a Rust Belt industry, and I have seen a __LOT__ of good ideas go by.
Good ideas are not that uncommon.
Bringing a Good Idea through the Life Cycle into being a product, and THEN effectively delivering it to the market? __THAT__ is extremely difficult, as that requires a wide range of skills to be deployed simulanteously. And almost all organizations have something critical which they are bad at.
toerror
26 Peachez@nixCraft I point a finger at the clueless accountant who touted the ‘efficiencies’ and the even more clueless board who hates that HR & employees even exist. CEOs simply want a money machine without the messy humans to either fund or run it.
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Frank Heijkamp
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