| ▲ | TacticalCoder a day ago |
| > ... has been declining for a few years IMO Interesting: there's a huge correlation with everybody beginning to use LLMs. And we dismiss it as being non-causal by saying it all started going downhill before the advent of LLMs? I don't buy it. I think we're seeing the results of what happens when you hand the keys of the kingdom to LLMs. |
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| ▲ | perching_aix a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| I really don't see the correlation, actually. On the contrary, I'm finding nasty defects with it that have been dormant for long and handwaved away, with repros to reveal them. It's been full speed downhill for many years, and the failure modes are pretty distinct. |
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| ▲ | CamperBob2 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Using LLMs properly leads to better software, not just more of it. |
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| ▲ | 10111001 a day ago | parent [-] | | > Using LLMs properly leads to better software, not just more of it. Current industry best practice is to use LLMs improperly. | | |
| ▲ | hackerbrother a day ago | parent | next [-] | | How do you use LLMs properly? | | |
| ▲ | NichoPaolucci a day ago | parent [-] | | With engineering rigor. They are fantastic tools for quickly navigating large codebases, ingesting large amounts of data, refactoring legacy code, compiling multiple formats of data, following defined patterns, and many other proper uses for the tools. That doesn’t mean the code/result doesn’t still need to meet our engineering standards. |
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| ▲ | CamperBob2 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hopefully the people who feel that way are already close to retirement, so the choice won't have to be made for them. | | |
| ▲ | 10111001 a day ago | parent [-] | | > Hopefully the people who feel that way are already close to retirement, so the choice won't have to be made for them. One of the best ways to deal with doing something the wrong way is to get rid of all the people who know how to do it correctly. That way no one knows any better, so no one has to confront the fact they're actually doing it wrong. |
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| ▲ | vconnor a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's the same with layoffs: there's always a top comment trying very hard to convince everybody that AI usage has played no part. |
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| ▲ | skeaker a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Well no, Windows has been more or less all downhill since Vista. |
