Hi I'm teo.
I spend a lot of my time working with computers. I'm interested in functional programming (haskell, nix, rust, agda mostly), formal methods, wikis, public transport and being critical of tech.
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Managers are often really impressed with trivial code changes or assume that complex impossible changes are trivial.
This makes sense. Being a manager (as a standpoint) puts you far away from the code which limits your ability to understand it.
LLMs turning coders "into managers" then makes it difficult for them to evaluate coding agents' effectiveness. The longer you spend further away from coding, the more difficult it is to tell what is trivial and what isn't.
A little louder, a reminder:
"Good UX" mostly means "I've seen this before."
Have you ever seen an adult without your cultural baggage approach a doorknob for the first time? They'll start by pulling it, then pushing it. There's nothing "intuitive" about turning a round doorknob. But you've been trained, so you don't even notice.
"...but Apple, but the iphone", the iPhone was never "easy to use" or "intuitive". They bombarded TV with training videos disguised as ads for 6 months pre-release.
I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs made with copilot".
Meanwhile, there's a grand total of zero requests for "plz put copilot in more stuff".
This should be significative of the attitude of veteran coders towards #LLM creep.
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