John BirkheadMar 24
Elissa
If I wanted to make money and didn't mind doing a painful job, I reckon I'd start a company specialising in cleaning up code left over from abortive attempts to axe half your coding team and just get your juniors to do it all with LLMs. Growth industry, I reckon.
Mar 24 at 1:44amWeb
Show threadJPMar 24
@vampiress I suspect the people who need what you'd offer wouldn't want to buy it at a price that you'd want to sell it for.
Show threaditgrrl Mar 24
@daedalus @vampiress evergreen toot 😕
Show threadstibbonsMar 24

@vampiress I've heard tell of people already getting good contract gigs doing slop mopping, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Just this morning I was wondering how well a software company with a loud no-LLM policy would go finding customers and/or employees.

Show threadElissaMar 24
@stibbons At the very least I imagine employees, they'd get a lot of interested folks, if my mastodon feed is any indication of general reception from tech folks.
Show threadAdam KentMar 24
@vampiress Juniors? No they're sacked too. Sales and marketing are doing it!
Show threadQueMar 24
@vampiress just saw a posting for 40k a month to do just that.
Show threadJamesMar 24
@vampiress people already earn money with doing exactly that. 💀 I dimly remember it even has a name by now, but can't remember what it was
Show thread☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻Mar 24

@vampiress what do you think would constitute “cleaned up?” The big issues would be the mismatch b/w business requirements and code. Would the requirements be documented, correct?

A ball of string set of problems. Would be good if it was in an area was familiar or say specific code end-points like RDBMS.