I'm curious, do people around you use AI? Because in my own workplace, people use lots of AI, and they ship lots of PRs, which correspond to actual features on the roadmap. I've been doing this a long time, and there is a whole lotta stuff shipping. I'm a manager and in the handful of hours I have I'm shipping the equivalent of what I would have as a full-time eng years ago.

> Is everyone just creating giant piles of throwaway slop?

yes, like the crypto or productivity 'industry', where every project exists to manage your other crypto and productivity projects, the dynamic of 'AI programming' seems to be to make software to manage your other two dozen AI things

mysteriously enough, big open source projects that people actually use in the real world aren't seeing their issues closed at any higher rates, almost as if that requires actual maintenance and programming (which Fred Brooks told us this half a century ago)