Can't tell you how many times I have heard about a friend's company needing to send an apology email to customers about downtime and flakiness due to AIgen commits that were poorly reviewed and misunderstood

The slow part of software is NOT the initial generation of software. It's the maintenance and review of it.

If your management is pushing for 10x programmer output, hell even 40% more programmer output, what they're asking for is a stability crisis. There's no way around it. That's how it is right now.

@cwebber It feels like nobody in a corp world gives a shit to think about - code reuse, code maintenance, code legacy, time spent on support - what they need is a feature generator machine without any logic

I wonder which type of swards Japanice smiths had if they allowed to change the technology each time the shōgun ordered a new feature for the war the plaid

@sharlatan @cwebber that definitely don't, ask anybody who writes code for a bank