this is so accurate it hurts. the amount of my coworkers who just outright have handed any and all thinking over to the computer is staggering. its not just senior either, plenty of devs at the lead and staff level are producing complete garbage that has to be rolled back within an hour of deploy because it is extremely broken, no one verified, and it passed automated checks.

there are several features over the last few months that were obviously made and deployed and no one even launched the dev server and tried a single thing to verify if it was right. just "pull my ticket, do my ticket, push my ticket. i am a developer."

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golly_ned 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Managers can be even worse. I’ve seen an entire roadmap mostly AI generated. Director+ across the company approving based on it having the right keywords, without nuance or detail.

I’ve seen monthly and quarterly executing results AI generated with plainly wrong factual information.

	▲	andrekandre 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		same here, i call it aids (ai delusion sickness) and some companies i've seen have it bad

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

> just "pull my ticket, do my ticket, push my ticket. i am a developer."

IME a lot of people are now subject to output-rate expectations that preclude doing much else, honestly.

	▲	advael an hour ago \| parent [-]
		In general, it's bizarre that people look at problems this systemic and conclude that they are primarily a failing happening at the level of individual contributors. This organizational rot didn't even start with LLMs, though it's certainly been accelerated by them

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globular-toast 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, it's not actually really about coding, it's about thinking. Anyone with any software experience knows the job is 90% thinking and 10% typing. At first I thought AI agents were just a faster keyboard, but no, they think for you too. For many people it's going to be very difficult to force themselves to think when they have a magic thinking machine that makes it look they thought it through.