Now they are buying fire stations, dentist offices, ski resorts, whatever the fuck they can think of and then raise the prices. Something needs to be done to stop this.

“Remove this old feature.” “Are you sure you didn’t break anything?”

That was it. Then I manually tested it to make sure nothing was broken. Then I did a brief review before posting it for code review and then pushed it. What would have taken me probably about 1 day to go through and figure out code changes and then actually change the code took me about 30 seconds.

To think that we need to maintain the post-Covid hiring bloat is nonsense. I’m not so arrogant to think that someone with an llm can’t replace me, if I survive a few more years in this industry I’ll be amazed and grateful.

Only desperate people would go work for Elon at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall

I don't know if you could ever collect this data and never have foreign entities or NSA moles infiltrate into it by sending their agents to work at that company and steal the data whenever they want. But I can see how this would be good at fighting crime but also a completely and absolute destruction of privacy.

We need politicians that actually care about Americans and their rights but no one who cares is dumb enough to want to go into politics, which is the sad thing.

Feature development could take minutes to hours depending on how you iterate it. These days, all we do now is just think of a feature and add it within an hour using AI. We have a process that is a year old now that is fixing bugs that would have taken us hours or days and it spits out a fix in about 10-15 minutes that is 95% accurate. 5% is garbage, but 24 months ago, 95% of it was garbage so the progress is staggering. The longest pole is code review which is all human, but that will all be automated soon.

Not everything will be much faster, but most processes will be 1-3 orders of magnitude faster. To ignore this or find excuses why LLMs/AI won't speed things up or remove the need for large swathes of humans is delusional and cope-ism.

2021-2022 was pretty good as well.

I think at least 80% of programmers are very bad, especially the massive number of contractors from Infosys, Wipro, etc. They are pumping out shit code and they can easily be replaced with a competent programmer with an LLM.

I, for one, welcome the new paradigm shift of vibe coders entering the field. I still think I have a competitive advantage with my 30+ years of coding experience, but I don't think it's wrong for vibe coders to enter my turf. I think value of code is rapidly asymptotically to ZERO. Code has no value anymore. It doesn't matter if it's slop as long as it works. If you are one of the ones that believes that all code written by humans is sacred and infallible, you probably don't have a lot of experience working in many companies. Most human code is garbage anyway. If it's AI-generated, at least it's based on better best principles and if it's really bad you just need to reprompt it or wait for a newer version of the AI and it will automatically get better.

THIS IS THE NEW PARADIGM. THINKING YOU HAVE ANY POWER TO SWAY THE FUTURE AWAY FROM THIS PATH IS FOOLISH.

I'm currently running a migration program at work and it turns out there's a 10 MB limit to the number of entries I can batch over at one time. At first I asked AI to copy 10 rows per batch but that was too slow. Then I asked it to change the code to do 400 rows per batch but sometimes it failed because it exceeded the 10 MB limit. Then I said just collect the number of rows until you get 10 MB and then send it off. This is working perfectly and now I'm running it without any hitches so far. Then I asked it to add an estimate to how long it would take to finish after every batch, including end time.

I really love this new world we're living in with AI coding. Sure this could have been done by someone without experience, but at least for right now the ideas I can come up with are much better than those without any experience, and that's hopefully the edge that keeps me employed. But whatever the new normal is, I'm ready to adapt.