The two last hire we got a year ago still don't have any ownership of anything. Even the project they coded 'themselve' where we involved them in the design and let them cook almost on their own, we are the one chasing bugs and defucking everything six months later because, probably unlike them, we actually read the PR (I'm mean, they probably did read it too, but today I'm extremely pissed, I'm at the point of calling a meeting to figure it out, it cannot continue like this). I've never took more than 4 months to at least understand most of the code, I feel like a year later their level of understanding is still the same. They are basically ai overseers at this point, but while I do more code review than ever before, I feel like they learn around the same as LLM, basically nothing.

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ryandvm 4 days ago | parent [-]

This is the new normal now that computer science based SWEs are being replaced with "LLM whisperers". Being 10 times more productive with AI necessarily means you're going to have 1/10th of the understanding of the code you're producing. It physically couldn't be any other way.

	▲	vouaobrasil 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		The scary thing is that the system moves in a direction such that it seems that it doesn't really matter. People on an individual level care but due to the strange economic conditions, LLM use is still rampant because experienced people can get some benefit from it in the short-term even if that means the long-term degradation of our collective expertise and thus a net negative. It's blindingly obvious but just like climate change, people can't help on an individual level to take the immediate reward.