Mastodawn

“1. You don't know what to build

This is the one nobody wants to talk about because it's embarrassing. Your PM hasn't talked to a real user in two months. Your requirements arrive as a Jira ticket with three sentences and a Figma link to a design that was approved by someone who's never used the product. Your engineers are making fifty micro-decisions a day about behaviour, edge cases, and error handling that nobody specified, because nobody thought about them.”

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.

Debugging Leadership

DrYak 4h ago

Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)4h ago

My Dinner With AI

https://www.grumpygamer.com/my_dinner_with_ai/

My Dinner With AI

Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry

Grumpy Gamer

DrYak 2d ago

Bison 2d ago

Hello, I'm a woodcarver, and this is what I do ✌️

You can help me a lot by sharing my work, so people can buy or commission me sculptures.

Praying for octopus blessings on your life 🐙🙏

#art

DrYak 3d ago

nixCraft 🐧3d ago

AI Didn’t Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier https://robenglander.com/writing/ai-did-not-simplify/

Look on the bright side in a few years there will be good demand for "artisanal" software engineers and specialized IT folks who can fix this AI slop generated code at 1000$ per hour.

AI Didn't Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier

DrYak 5d ago

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Jastrow 6d ago

@nojhan @bortzmeyer Voilà, on m'a expliqué "c'est comme une langue, mais comme l'ordinateur est con, il faut être précis dans la manière dont on lui parle"

DrYak 5d ago

Aral Balkan 5d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116216352260770844

You know what they say about the best satire being indistinguishable from reality…

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daniel:// stenberg://5d ago

they claim "Zero exposure to original source" but surely all popular Open Source projects have been read and parsed by every LLM in existence many times over

DrYak 5d ago

daniel:// stenberg://5d ago

"Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch"

https://malus.sh/

MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution

DrYak 5d ago

tante 5d ago

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

DrYak 5d ago

endrift 🏳️‍⚧️5d ago

I do not worry about being "left behind" due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about a massive dip in the quality of software that's already been moldering for years due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the FOSS maintainers who are already under-compensated for their work burning out entirely having to deal with the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the environmental impact of the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the laundering of FOSS (and non-FOSS source available!) code into projects that are now legally culpable due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the people who can no longer write code without leaning on an LLM coding agent becoming helpless without spending ridiculous (and increasing) amounts of money to companies that may or may not exist in a year due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I do not worry about being "left behind" when it all comes crashing down and people who are actually skilled have to pick up the pieces and rebuild due to the adoption of LLM coding agents.

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