Discussion
Hearing more and more stories of "nobody knows how to work on our codebase anymore after 1.5 years of agents, and management is asking for us to get more involved in the code after initially telling us to go agent native due to quality issues, but nobody really knows how to anymore"
Responses:
- Shock!
- Surprise!
- Wasn't this the goal?
@cwebber yea it's precisely the goal of LLM vendors. I'm *still* not clear why anyone without a large stake in a LLM company would have gone along with it though. Especially dependency averse megacorps.
My best guess is that my mental model of, "surely when trying it out you would carefully review the output for maintainability like Everyone. In. The. Industry. Has. Been. Saying. Is. Crucial. For. Decades." is not as universal as I thought it was.
@cwebber in my workplace we are still in the "embracing AI first" way of working stage. No amount of warnings seem to have any effect. I'm in malicious compliance -mode. Then I can tell I told you so. Though probably no one is interested in that either...
@cwebber I love the smell of technical debt.
It smells like... employment for software archeologists!