RedI spent seven years in the "move fast and break things" culture on an incident response team. It's a garbage way of doing business.
Maybe share this with your dev friends. And if they're a leader, maybe share it with 'em again in a week.
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nickapos@r3dr3clus3 Yeah totally on the spot. Maintenance of AI generated services will be such a chore because there is going to be no one having ownership of the code.
No developer with deep understanding
No developer with deep understanding
Cavyherd"Nobody sees coming"—except anybody who understands how learning & expertise develop. Like, most of the serious thinkers I've seen discuss the "AI" take-over....
I'm only barely the most rudimentary coder, & I could see this coming a mile away.
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Steve Purcell@sanityinc @r3dr3clus3 I knw that @krusynth will happily help you out. For a "price" 😁 https://billhunt.dev/move-carefully/
tuban_muzuruI coded for forty years, C and Java and lots of ASM knitting. Good old apps coding, a lot of vision systems work.
Socrates argued that writing would destroy memory. Calculators were supposedly going to make us unable to do math. Google was going to make us stupid (Nicholas Carr made a whole career out of that one). And yet humanity kept getting more capable, not less, because offloading routine cognitive work frees us up for higher-order thinking.
Things that make ya go Hmm
So this team is sitting around and can't understand their own code base.
Ever hear of a debugger !?
zygmydIt's the cloud though. They'd have to run tens of geographically distributed debuggers.
@tuban_muzuru I've heard this take before and it's oversimplified and tired.
This supposes there's no point of diminishing returns or wrong turns in humanity's technological advancements, like it's all just been linear progression.
Humanity has become more capable...I guess, but that's constantly tempered by our own hubris and laziness that's lead us into some highly destructive systems and "leadership".
High order thinking...doesn't exist in a vaccum independent of low order thinking. And offloading the low order stuff will degrade the quality of the high order stuff. There are already studies that show that offloading thinking to llms negatively impacts human development.
Glad you're optimistic though.
Good find, thank you. Definitely going to re-read work's social media policy to find out how much trouble I'll be in for reposting it on LinkedIn.
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AI is making engineering teams faster. But faster does not mean better. When teams ship code they do not fully understand, technical debt compounds silently until the system breaks. | Imran Gardezi
AI is making engineering teams faster. But faster does not mean better. When teams ship code they do not fully understand, technical debt compounds silently until the system breaks.