Dare Obasanjo
It’s an interesting world where the highest paid and most senior engineers in FAANG have fully embraced using tools like Claude Code and software novices have adopted vibe coding tools like Cursor but there’s a strong midtwit style resistance in the middle arguing that AI tools are just hype.
Feb 23 at 2:16amWeb
Show threadbjb  Feb 23

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I don't think I'll be able to afford the subscription when they turn on the fees. So, why get dependent?

Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesFeb 23

@carnage4life

AKA. The retrenchment list.

Show threadCassandrichFeb 23
@carnage4life The "highest paid and most senior engineers" are likely more like management roles where they've been long detached from working with code and suddenly feel empowered to micromanage rather than depending on actual engineers to do things below a high architectural level. Their opinions are not telling you what you think they're telling you.
Show threadkhmFeb 23
not to mention that the "highest paid and most senior engineers in FAANG" are the people responsible for shit like "loading bars on websites" and "advertising on the start menu"

good judgment has never been a selection factor for these roles, and I'm not really surprised that AI slop is indistinguishable from the code they were writing before

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Show threadTorbjörn NorinderFeb 23
@dalias I believe https://defector.com/toward-a-theory-of-kevin-roose applies here. This pundit is not worth your time.
Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector

“You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial intelligence, “if you’re in denial about how useful it is.” Narrowly, in strict terms, this is true: You can’t be a serious critic of anything if you are in denial about any part of it,…

Show threadCassandrichFeb 23
@tnorinder Sometimes when you respond to someone who's wrong it's not for them but for their audience.
Show threadDan Portales 🇲🇽 Feb 23
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Show threadDan Portales 🇲🇽 Mar 1
I remember back in my days when the discussed technology was WordPress instead of AI
Show threadTuskieFeb 23

@carnage4life To be fair, there’s also a very strong and overt push to use these tools, with career ramifications for those that don’t, and this is particularly true at Microsoft which has a vested interest and a CEO that has turned his corporate life over to AI (IIRC, Nadella has AI summarize podcasts rather than listen to them).

Fowler’s a very capable engineer and probably does have some real interest here, but it’s worth noting the broader, corporate inventive structures at play.

Show threadFrank QuednauFeb 23
@carnage4life yeah, would be interesting to see how usage compares to nationality. At the end, the US is also famous to use a car instead of walking a couple of yards.
Show threadJ.P. StewartFeb 23

@carnage4life

Devs. Just people who write code.

The problem is there are more professional software engineering disciplines than that.

(Regardless, yes it’s a good tool. Has cases it’s designed for, and cases it’s not. )