I think people who were in mostly bs kind of roles, honestly.

wellitsnotsoea 19 hours ago | parent [-]

I have become the “AI” guy at my place, unfortunately.

For some reason I can “hold it right” and others cannot and for the life of me I cannot figure out what it is. I am not more intelligent and certainly not an amazing programmer. I currently suspect I am better at separating what is and is not important. I find many people miss the forest for the trees and overindex on irrelevant details. The more technical they are the stronger this tendency seems to be.

I regularly, like almost daily, encounter colleagues claiming it cannot do something I either did the day before or will just demonstrate right in front of them. The response is usually rationalizing and claiming it wasn’t “that hard to begin with” AKA shifting goalposts.

I have never once encountered a work problem which I truly found impossible to automate, which is insane, but the institutional inertia is not worth overcoming. Devs are a thorny bunch and usually think they are special. I am a recovering one.

I think many are in for a rude awakening.

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codedrift_ 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> For some reason I can “hold it right” and others cannot and for the life of me I cannot figure out what it is.

I don't think we talk about this as much as we should. I've been interviewing devs as part of [DAYJOB] and there's a lot of people who cannot get anything useful out of Claude. Forget features, we're just talking bugfixes.

I also don't know what's different about the behavior. My best guess is people are overprompting, adding a bunch of noise that interferes with what they're trying to achieve.

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imtringued 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't see a rude awakening for a technically competent person not having adapted to this year's technology yet. It's pretty weird to expect a functioning development process to suddenly stop working or malfunction just because an even cheaper or faster development process could hypothetically be adopted today.

	▲	derwiki 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> suddenly stop working I think we might already be there with security. Exploits, hack attempts are up and likely continue to stay high. Traditional development process could work but it’s probably more engineers than management wants to spend on a cost center.