The only people who are going to put in the time, are people who care enough to. The problem is you have people who didn’t care before who were equipped with a garden hose. Now that they have a fully pressurized fire hose they can make more of a mess faster.

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senordevnyc 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Then they should be easy to defeat. Why are you complaining?

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themgt 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As an author of fine literature, these million monkeys on typewriters simply upset my sense of dignity. And to imagine the impoverished prose so many readers shalt forthwith be perusing!

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yakattak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Defeat in what aspect?

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senordevnyc 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Compete with, for jobs, customers, investment, etc.

	▲	yakattak 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe. But it depends on the metric. It seems like orgs are focused on PR count and token usage. Issues caused by poor code are often lagging indicators so it’s asymmetrical in that aspect. Write lots of code now and statistically look great, while the impact won’t be felt for a much larger range of time. With the job search and whatnot then yeah, caring becomes a lot more important. That’s true.

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risyachka 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is so on point that I want to cry.

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Daishiman 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hard disagree. LLMs are fantastic for fixing bad architecture that's been around for a decade because nobody was willing to touch it. I can have it write tons and tons of sanity checks and then have it rewrite functionality piece by piece with far more verification than what I'd get from most engineers.

It's not immediate, it still takes weeks if you want to actually do QA and roll out to prod, but it's definitely better than the pre-LLM alternatives.

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yakattak 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah but you care which is my exact point.

	▲	Daishiman an hour ago \| parent [-]
		How is this different from every single technological iteration?