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[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 114 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Fuck this ad for AI. It's trying to make it seem like workers don't use AI because they're scared. It's only 8% that said they were scared. The rest of us 92% workers aren't scared we're going to be replaced by AI. We see how shitty AI is and we don't like it because it sucks and makes things slower, not faster.

The super-users we surveyed were around 3x more likely to have received both a promotion and pay raise in the past year, compared to employees who have been slow to adopt these tools

I do agree with this point. One of my team members recently got a lot of brownie points because he's been doing AI demos. The execs love him because he's visibly following orders. Does he generate way more code than everyone else? YES, this is actually a horrible thing, but execs are clueless and think more code == more better. Is he more productive than others? Definitely not. The hot garbage he's generating is just bug-ridden tech debt.

I guess I'm sabotaging our AI rollout by getting out of the way. You wanna inject AI everywhere? Fine, do it. I'm not gonna review it though. If you can't take the time to write something, I'm not going to spend my time reading it.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In about five years from now, there will be so much garbage code with unfixable bugs. It’s difficult for me to imagine what kind of collapse this will cause. Or how we will recover from it, which might take another decade. Fortunately we might be fighting eachother with spears over fresh water by then, so we will have bigger problems to not solve.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago

I'd say be hopeful, but I don't know.

I am a software developer, and there's absolutely been times where a temp fix becomes permanent, but I've also had times where my boss has told me to clean up tech debt or I've been "look this whole chunk of code is both wrong and unmaintainable" (wrong as in it didn't do the thing correctly but it looked correctish) and I've been allowed to just rewrite the broken code from scratch.

Idk, I feel like also at a certain point the codes bugs might be so obvious and troublesome that companies are forced to actually deal with the problem code and when that happens will be different for every company and every program.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days ago

God, I can't imagine having to review code from that guy. What an ass