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0 pointsgck11mo ago0 comments

I left my last company job just before "AI-first engineering" became mainstream, and you confirmed what I was feeling all this time - I have absolutely zero idea how teams actually manage to collaborate with LLM-managed projects. All the projects that I'm working now are my own and the only reason why I could do this is because I had unlimited time and unlimited freedom. There's no chance I would be able to do this in a team setting.

I'm positive that the last company's CEO probably mandates by now that nobody must write a single line of code by hand and there's likely some rigid process everyone has to follow.

Fun times ahead.

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busterarm1mo ago

I agree and commiserate. In the near term my picture is pretty grim. There's fantastic uses for these tools but they're being abused.

I was big on correctness, software safety (think medical devices, not memory) and formal proofs anyway, so I think I'm just going to take the pay cut and start selecting for those types of jobs. Your run of the mill SaaS or open source+commercial companies are all becoming a death march.

bluefirebrand1mo ago

> Your run of the mill SaaS or open source+commercial companies are all becoming a death march.

Most of them already were death marches to begin with, now they are firing squads

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