In the end it's an emotional response. I am "anti-AI" because it has caused a net negative experience for me, so I feel bad towards it. Confirmation bias makes it easier for me up-vote or voice concerns for "anti-AI" posts and stay silent for "pro-AI" posts.

When I first started working with claude at work, I had a mixed bag of emotions. On one hand, it was awesome, surreal experience that lets me go 10x overnight. Then the negative experiences started hitting me.

My team who has fully embraced AI now generate slop. They're 2-5x more "productive" and churn out code for me to "review". I point out things that don't make any sense, and their AI agent enthusiastically agrees with me, "You're right to push back, great suggestion! You're right that this didn't make any sense". I feel dismissed and it has contributed to my dissatisfaction at work significantly.

A lot of my work is seeping through the AI slob because I can't get away from it. AI PR descriptions like a novel and it's so _verbose_. It's tiring. It allows juniors who are being so extra with the new tool and give bad ideas with bad implementation. Shooting that down nicely doesn't work and because other people in the team who have embraced AI accepts it.

I enjoyed writing code and reading code. I used to take pride in writing a clean, maintainable code and writing a good documentation. AI has made bad developers think they're right, and very confident. It's tiring to talk to. So I don't like AI, because that's the source of all this frustration.

Yes, I am definitely more productive with AI. But the net result for me is decidedly negative.

I'm being completely honest about it. Hopefully this helps someone understand why some engineers dislike AI.

Honestly part of me still thinks this is a satire project but who knows.

This simple sentence that shows empathy to the person on the other side of the line is so profound. In a single breath you let the other person be heard, be seen, and appreciated. At the worst, it makes you stand out amongst all the abusive asshats they interact with day to day. It makes them want to help you. I've used this line every time I had to deal with a customer service agent and the voice always softened after that. A simple "thank you", or "take your time" seem to mark you as a person, rather than a case to close.

The OP's point was that the "faceless" bureaucrat may be helpless and the smug emotion the original author implied may not be unfounded. I can see a valid point for both.

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I've loved their product and support ever since. Glad to see this happening as well. Kudos.

I'm going to take a walk now...

like, it would be very cool to do something like have your feature branch be deployed to a separate pod in dev cluster, and have an ingress rule set up so that it points to that pod only.

So if your dev environment usually points to .dev.example.com,

Deploy your feature branch to a dev cluster, but on a different pod. Then have it reachable to .feature-branch-1.dev.example.com without touching main.

I think it's a neat idea and I'm sure it should be possible if I configure some istio settings.

It's all new thing and it's fun to have a direction towards learning

jokes aside, how wonderful that the stories we heard when we were growing up are happening(albeit not exactly as was told). Science is cool.

Shipilev's website looks like a fascinating resource. I appreciate the pointer!