Because AI use correlates with sloppiness, and due to the fundamental attribution fallacy us engineers don't like sloppiness.

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beej71 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is a lot of it for me. "All users care about is that they can drive a car across the bridge. They don't care if an AI built it."

I want a solid, proud, well-engineered bridge, goddammit!

	▲	atmavatar 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Many users may not care which bridges they drive over, but I personally would like to avoid driving over the original Tacoma Narrows bridge[1] or any others of similarly flimsy engineering. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)

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tehjoker 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am not totally anti AI but I don’t use coding harnesses. I see my coworkers using coding harnesses decline in basic engineering mentalities, asking me questions easily answered with a modicum of research or thinking, but claude told them something so they ask me.

I don’t think these are bad guys or bad engineers, it’s concerning to me though. Engineers should be getting sharper in their analysis over time not weaker. When someone tells me they haven’t even looked at a few lines of code they submitted it’s shocking and a sign of sloppy thinking. It’s rude too because is expecting me to pick up their slack.

I’m sure the AI companies are in love with the idea that people are growing dependent on their product for things they could easily do themselves. That’s a great business.

	▲	onjectic 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> It’s rude too because is expecting me to pick up their slack. I just had to deal with this, they never pushed back on my PR comments, just copy pasted everything I said back into Claude. Its just second hand vibe coding at that point, might as well fire the middle man…
	▲	queenkjuul 30 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		My boss was fired yesterday, in part because every single document, email, meeting agenda, performance review, and PR he's written for a year has been pure AI slop. His defense was always "everyone uses AI, including you" and I'm like yes i do use it for code but never communications, and my code is always 10x better than the untested slop I was constantly asked to review. This is a guy with 30 years engineering experience, reduced to submitting untested and unreviewed slop code of a quality drastically worse than the least-experienced juniors in the company. That phenomenon on a global scale is concerning to think about. That people are using these things outside of tech to get medical advice or as therapist replacements is even more concerning.