Markus Feilner3d ago
"I've heard management is actively encouraging and even mandating these non technical workers to use lms to make these features, creating a mutation of tech debt where somebody who cannot code uses a machine that doesn't think to create code with no intention that nobody really understands, and does so at such a velocity that it burdens the actual technical workers with constantly having to monitor and fix it."
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Show threadMarkus Feilner3d ago
"LLMS do not understand anything, nor do they think, which means any solutions they build or theoretical bug reports that they may make are immediately questionable."
#AI #TechnicalDebt #CognitiveDebt
Show threadMarkus Feilner

"Code isn't just something you write once and leave forever. It needs to be maintained by other people. Sometimes he is in the future, especially when people keep being laid off, which becomes much harder when there's lots of code to go through written by an LLM piloted by somebody who doesn't know what they're actually doing and relies on the LM, which doesn't know anything to tell them what's going on."

#toldyouso

Mar 21 at 9:22amWeb
Show threadMarkus Feilner3d ago
Vibe coding creates code that is pseudo programming language code. Actually it's write-only, like machine code - which was the reason for inventing programming languages, wasnt it?
Show threadMarkus Feilner3d ago
"It's so cool that this is happening, it's great, it's actually brilliant. How fucking insan what? And I'm I'm kindly going to assume that the person using this knew what they were doing. But the idea that we have and I think this is what's happening with open source too. We have people with llms who are like, yeah, well the LM tells me I'm good, so I must be. Let me just run this LM pasture problems. It's why we're getting all these junk pull requests on #GitHub on #opensource projects."
Show threadMarkus Feilner3d ago
"People that think they're competent because an LM told them to are fucking up the entire software world."
Show threadUlrich Junker3d ago

@mfeilner so many researchers are complaining that LLMs are creating fake references when writing papers with LLM assistance, but no vibe coder complains about nonsensical code generated by an LLM. How can this be?

Or is this asymmetry due to the fact that the researchers are at least able to check the references for accuracy, whereas the vibe coder has no clue of what the generated code is doing???

Show threadMarkus Feilner3d ago
@UlrichJunker its a different level to check references than to understand code...
Show threadUlrich Junker3d ago

@mfeilner exactly! That’s why I don’t believe it when people claim that #GenAI has written perfectly working code.

But I may have high exigencies on what is perfectly working code!

Show threadMarkus Feilner3d ago
@UlrichJunker The problem is: Managers. OSI Layer 9-12, iykwim.
They dont care if they cannot understand what the program does because their coders can't explain their work or because it is the random result of some million ape keystroaks on a statistical parrot's keyboard. It doesnt matter to them, IT doesnt matter. We need interdisciplinarity here. No IT can fix that.
Show threadUlrich Junker3d ago
@mfeilner yes, I have experienced this kind of manager. The worst: they never tried to use the software we developed for their own. They were only concerned of giving a good image of their team and of themselves in all kinds of meetings and events. Critical voices had not been appreciated by them!