> I don't know, claude did that

I'm the type of reviewer that actually reads code and asks probing questions, and I've heard this from junior and senior devs alike. It's maddening how people say this with a straight face and expect to keep their jobs. If people are pushing code they don't understand, they're liability to their team, product, and employer.

The rank disrespect of somebody asking you to review something they haven't even looked at is eye watering.

I feel like AI-induced brain-rot of engineers is inevitable. Unless we see AI leapfrog into something close to AGI in the future (certainly not ruling this out), I think there will be very lucrative careers available to engineers who can maintain a balanced relationship with AI.

My interactions with Gemini tend to be fairly slow, but it's because I don't give it any extra permissions, make it research and plan an implementation first, and check each file update one at a time.

So far it has still been a bit more productive for me, though the margin is low. I get more product sork done on the order of 5-15%, I tend to have more test coverage as I focus more heavily on that, and I can focus more often on architecture. The last one is a win for me, I prefer that work and find that I can review code quickly enough to make it worth the tradeoff.

It is going to happen with higher frequency - buckle up!

Pre AI I can understand why you might not know. There have been instances where I find a recipe, take what I need, but there’s some code I can’t understand or find an answer to. But time pressure, so I just add a comment and ask around for ideas.

These days, just ask the llm.

The correct response to that is "what's your job?"

It's baffling how little awareness some people have.

100%. This has in general become a trend across my company. Less so developers, more so everyone else spitting LLM generated content, and asking real people to review and provide feedback. I mean , WTF.

It’s pretty great actually.

We can filter out useless people faster.

The days of easy 400k plus TC are over and only people deserving of that should get it imo.

And btw I worked with idiots before, and I’m sure I will in the future. But there should be less of them.

"I don't know Claude did that" isn't a bad thing in and of itself... If someone is spending a bunch of time on code that Claude could have done and easily verified it was correct, they are going to move slower and produce less useful things of value than someone who cares about reading every line of code.