Mastodawn

People keep assuring me that LLMs writing code is a revolution, that as long as we maintain sound engineering practices and tight code review they're actually extruding code fit for purpose in a fraction of the time it would take a human.

And every damned time, every damned time any of that code surfaces, like Anthropic's flagship offering just did, somehow it's exactly the pile of steaming technical debt and fifteen year old Stack Overflow snippets we were assured your careful oversight made sure it isn't.

Can someone please explain this to me? Is everyone but you simply prompting it wrong?

It's a good thing programmers aren't susceptible to hubris in any way, or this would have been so much worse.

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Julia Rez 9h ago

@bodil

It's not like we've all been cobbling stuff up in a hurry from StackExchange C&Ps for the last decade anyway.

Because there's a point where no matter what yr fkn agile velocity, the far end of the backlog is red shifting towards some management event horizon, and it now hurts too much to think properly.

So you do the thing that makes the pain go away because you are a thinking feeling human.

Jira does not care and adds another ticket with a t-shirt size attached.

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Julia Rez

I don't fault people (much) for this, but it does make me wonder at the tottering edifices of fail we've propped up with sticks and yaml to make... Something 'better'.

Like K15s needs the entirety of the cncf et al to make the experience something less awful than a power noise all dayer in the function room of a flat roofed pub. Why isn't that a warning that the entire premise of the thing is flawed?

They appear to have automated the soul crushing machine, but for money.