@arstechnica This and #Nvidia AI vibe coding for their drivers. It's going to be a "wonderful" year for AI slop code.

@arstechnica Senior devs could use this as an opportunity to push back and improve conditions for all.

But they won't.

@arstechnica Ai is like nepotism. An incompetent candidate is put in a position where they can do real harm, because they are related to upper management. It doesn't help to badmouth the incompetent guy [sic], because it will just backfire against you and it won't get any results. It leads to bigger and bigger screwups, still with the support of the execs. Until up is down, winning is losing, and any criticism is a resignation.

@arstechnica lololololololololol!!! Software Engineering in the enterprise is dead. Noone wants to do this.

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Boil the seas to make six-fingered slop and then fire everyone because it's 'good enough' and then everything stops working because it isn't.

Can't the oligarchs and multinational corporations find another way to extract our wealth?

@arstechnica so when upper management forces a deadline they have someone to blame that isn’t themselves, really. I expect they’ll have someone good engineers leave due to the overload in reviewing slop.

@arstechnica what if business decisions where made by an LLM?

@arstechnica wait.... they weren't even reviewing the ai code? And thousands of business trust this company?

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This is like taking your best programmers off their jobs to babysit an incompetent nepotism hire.

@arstechnica AI can be a great tool for some applications...but it is by NO MEANS ready to be let loose unchecked. It will often make mistakes (it is sorting thru it's trained knowledge....which can be wrong completely or out of date). It often forgos secure code or efficient code to solve the problem. It will "hyperfocus" on what it thinks is the issue even if clearly looking it over it's unrelated or not even a problem. If you use AI, vet the results. Don't just trust it

@arstechnica this happens when upper management NEVER faces consequences of bad decisions.

@arstechnica The fact that there wasn't sign off already is insane to me.

You reap what you sow

@arstechnica this should work great as long as they pause time to cope with the reality that Sr. Engineers will retire and no new Sr. Engineers are being produced.

@arstechnica Not quite up to the hype, eh Amazon? See if any of the workers you fucked over by AI firing give two shits to come back to help you fix it. Perhaps if you increased their salaries by 10X.