Elizabeth Ayer3d ago

I'm a big fan of this explanation/rant from Andrew Murphy.

Taken as a whole, there are many bottlenecks in a corporate software development process. The "load-bearing" calendar is a great example!

Speeding up code creation just increases pressure on the bottleneck, which decreases throughput.

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

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Show threadElizabeth Ayer3d ago

So why are we still trying to optimize code creation?

For decades, people with power - executives and product people - have been shifting the blame for strategy failures and poor market insight onto development "productivity."

This AI moment should be incredibly clarifying. Like, it should be the reductio ad absurdum of a productivity-centric approach.

Show threadElizabeth Ayer3d ago

The fact that we are *not* seeing wildly improving software all around us tells us everything we need to know.

There is no flourishing of value delivery, new product categories, more needs being satisfied better. It’s the opposite.

All we are seeing is decreases in quality, because 👏 code 👏 creation 👏 is not 👏 the problem.

Show threadgusseting10h ago
@decryption saw this + thought of you...
Show threaddecryption10h ago
@gusseting so many LLM/AI takes, so little time!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gusseting/116360107497873443

@decryption 🤯

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@gusseting it's bloody everywhere, putting your head in the sand when it comes to AI/LLMs isn't an option IMHO, it's being forced on us whether we like it or not
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Show threadgusseting10h ago

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@jbc/116359723450522376

@decryption "I think some of these crazy kids on Lemmy are doing the Lord's work"
Damn straight!
There is a certain joy in fucking shit up:

Show threadSobri | Zoe (she/her)10h ago
@decryption @gusseting name 3 things that llms have improved and how it couldn't have been done without an llm
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@cutesobri @gusseting a person can do anything an LLM can do
Show threadSobri | Zoe (she/her)37m ago
@decryption @gusseting
Ive never found a llm that can touch me the way i need
Show threadgusseting2h ago

@cutesobri @decryption
"name 3 things that llms have improved and how it couldn't have been done without an llm"

1) the speed of getting kicked out of an autistic group due to a meltdown over their use of AI and their religious fervour re: its uptake.

2) my escalating hatred of alpha male right wing techbros

3) the speed of decline of people + planet

Could these happen without an LLM? Sure, but the compounding effect of LLM had sped up the process so fast.