Yeah, fortunately while our CTO is giddy like a schoolboy about LLMs, he hasn't actually attempted to force it on anyone, thankfully.
Unfortunately, a number of my peers now seem to have become irreparably LLM-brained.
It is, actually. The entire point of what I was saying is that you have all these engineers now that reflexively jump straight to their LLM for anything and everything. Using their brains to simply write some code themselves doesn't even occur to them as an something they should do. Much like you do, by the sounds of it.
You know that at any company larger than a small startup, developers tend to have little control over what they work on, right? They can try to convince management, but ultimately the decision is not in their hands.
There's a ton of things about our app I'd love to fix but my time is limited and other things end up taking more priority.
No, good engineers were not constantly googling problems because for most topics, either the answer is trivial enough that experienced engineers could answer them immediately, or complex and specific enough to the company/architecture/task/whatever that Googling it would not be useful. Stack overflow and the like has always only ever really been useful as the occasional memory aid for basic things that you don't use often enough to remember how to do. Good engineers were, and still are, reasoning through problems, reading documentation, and iteratively piecing together system-level comprehension.
The nature of the situation hasn't changed at all: problems are still either trivial enough that an LLM is pointless, or complex and specific enough that an LLM will get it wrong. The only difference is that an LLM will spit out plausible-sounding bullshit and convince people it's valuable when it is, in fact, not.
Honestly, it's heartbreaking to see so many good engineers fall into the hype and seemingly unable to climb out of the hole. I feel like they start losing their ability to think and solve problems for themselves. Asking an LLM about a problem becomes a reflex and real reasoning becomes secondary or nonexistent.
Executives are mostly irrelevant as long as they're not forcing the whole company into the bullshit.
100%. Though I can't imagine the meme is actually saying that things being stringly typed is a good thing.
Me, as a professional Haskeller: "What is even an object?"
TBH I'd take OOP brain over LLM brain any day of the week.
>Washingtonian
>Rides the bus
Checks out.
(no shade, grew up there and wish other places had a bus system nearly as good)
I would be ecstatic if AI was banned at work. Fucking sick of people dumping absolute dogshit on me and expecting me to make sense of it.
Now, if I was forced to use AI, I'd probably quit unless I could find an easy way to circumvent it. But honestly probably not even then, because being forced to use it is a really bad sign.
Seriously.