Literally thirty cats, obviously
Also sometimes a person that does technological activities and also non-technological things like reading books, knitting, and art; and also sometimes I play some ditties on old timey instruments
It's like overnight, all the strategies we used to value in engineering (separation of concerns, sustainability, smart abstraction, planning) are now The Worst, because they are "slow"
I predict these are still important, even for LLMs, who are modeled on human language
like why even bother with PRs if this is acceptable? Maybe we just go back to FTP and relearn the last 30 years of web dev the hard way
not exactly controlling the source code, these days
This happens regularly now. This is impossible to review.
People are all like "holy shit, I can move so fast now with LLM agents! Why would anyone want to slow the process with discrete steps and meaningful review?"
These folks don't seem to realize that it's always been possible to move fast by writing bad code. There's a reason code review exists. There's a reason the term "architecture" is used in coding. Please trust me on this.
Oh the joy of annual performance reviews!
My highlighted feedback this year was "would like to see more technical guidance and leadership from you on [non-existent] big projects" and also "you could move faster if you..." [* reads notes *] "...skipped building consensus and didn't seek any feedback for your proposals"
This is important for my personal growth in understanding that performance reviews don't exist to aid in my personal growth, and are merely a justification for wage stagnation 🙂
Getting really fatigued of ppl (non-eng) who throw a prompt at an LLM to do some UI eng task with loose requirements and mock data, see visual results, and are like "genius! it's ready to ship! It just needs real data. We don't need eng or design anymore!"
It's like if I taped a faucet to the wall and put a sink on the floor below, and was like "yeah i installed this sink, it's basically ready to use - just needs water and some slight visual tweaks. We don't need plumbers anymore!"
There's been some excitement recently over Cloudflare rebuilding Next.js to work with Vite, all using AI: https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext
What's wild about the article is that it mentions how doing it all with LLMs wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for Next.js having such good documentation & code organization, from people. And then just after states (paraphrased) "in the age of AI we won't have to care about things like code organization and abstraction for the sake of human understanding".
Some people at my place of work are spending intense amounts of time and money just trying out different LLM tools in order to see if the tools will save...time.
Kinda wild that the (successful!) sales pitch on so many of these products is "we made a thing that in theory could maybe do all the things that you want without any effort; pay for it and find out!"
Very few of these tools over the past year have found a lasting place in the toolbox.
