Writing code is easier than ever. Being a software engineer is harder than ever. The paradox nobody talks about, and what engineers and leaders should do.
Boring time-series data processing stuff, can’t really get too much into it.
Nothing worked, not the API Calls, not the database calls, the docs didn’t even have real UUIDs for the “testing instructions”. But it was just broken enough to return values. And nobody bothered checking if the values were valid or not.
Real gut wrenching realizing we had thousands of lines of lies instead of code.
One of our interns used AI to vibe code a micro service. They were here a month and set us back 3
What did the microservice do?
Boring time-series data processing stuff, can’t really get too much into it.
Nothing worked, not the API Calls, not the database calls, the docs didn’t even have real UUIDs for the “testing instructions”. But it was just broken enough to return values. And nobody bothered checking if the values were valid or not.
Real gut wrenching realizing we had thousands of lines of lies instead of code.
Well, I think that was the developer not the AI.