On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
  • Peereboominc@piefed.socialEnglish
    15·
    17 hours ago

    I think the problem has always been there but now with ai it is magnified. There are always those people who don’t care about quality and want to get it over as quickly as possible. Before ai they could not push so much work so their dumb low quality work was not so prominent. With ai, they are 100x faster than your high quality work. Your work isnt even seen anymore because it is overwhelmed by the low effort work.

    • percent@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Before AI, I was spending a lot of time fixing slop left behind by people who didn’t seem to care about quality.

      Now, I (am forced to) use AI to clean up slop from the same people, but they’re also armed with AI (though, to be fair, I think AI adoption actually had a net positive effect on their code quality).

      So yeah I agree, it’s definitely magnified.

      Honestly though, slop cleanup doesn’t affect my mood as much anymore, now that I don’t have to do it manually. I had AI agents find ~15 bugs yesterday, and I had agents handle the entire flow for each one in parallel: Create a ticket in the issue tracker, fix the bug (TDD approach), open a PR, monitor CI while it runs, wait for review (and address change requests/feedback), merge, then close the ticket. It was a lot more in a single day than I used to do manually.