nixCraft 🐧Mar 14

AI Didn’t Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier https://robenglander.com/writing/ai-did-not-simplify/

Look on the bright side in a few years there will be good demand for "artisanal" software engineers and specialized IT folks who can fix this AI slop generated code at 1000$ per hour.

AI Didn't Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier

Show threadWooShell
@nixCraft AI has shifted the main effort from "putting mental algorithms down into code" to "finding errors and fixing hallucinations", and (imho) that's the far more annoying task of the two. I've always hated debugging other people's code, but now I have to argue with an assertive AI that it really has made a mistake and in which way I want it to fix it. It's like training a rather renitent intern, over and over again.
AI has made our job more mentally exhausting, not easier.
Mar 14 at 4:27pmWeb
Show threadThe DoctorMar 14
@WooShell @nixCraft If I wanted to debug code using coercive psychology, I'd have gone into marketing.