When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old. Every file had a comment at the top with the date and the author’s name. You’d open a file and read through it, sometimes touching a feature no one had touched in a decade.
Everything felt very permanent, like
Like so many engineers-turned-AI-babysitters, they probably no longer understand any of the code they’re responsible for.
Very accurate statement as someone that contracts as a “glorified ai slop code reviewer” and it’s sad how quickly it happened.
junior devs/fresh grads couldn’t tell you how any of the stuff they “build” works anyways but what I’ve found shocking is senior level devs that have either simply forgotten how the code works or just don’t care anymore. They fully embraced and drank the Agentic Kool-Aid that they’ve allowed their skill set to dwindle. And I’d say the vast majority of those devs just don’t care anymore.
It’s so bad now I personally have felt guilty simply using fish as my shell. sure it has NOTHING to do with LLMs but I found myself relying too much on the autocomplete that I moved back to just straight up plain bash so I would force myself to remember stuff. I don’t want to have to rely on a tool to do the work for me.
Very accurate statement as someone that contracts as a “glorified ai slop code reviewer” and it’s sad how quickly it happened.
junior devs/fresh grads couldn’t tell you how any of the stuff they “build” works anyways but what I’ve found shocking is senior level devs that have either simply forgotten how the code works or just don’t care anymore. They fully embraced and drank the Agentic Kool-Aid that they’ve allowed their skill set to dwindle. And I’d say the vast majority of those devs just don’t care anymore.
It’s so bad now I personally have felt guilty simply using fish as my shell. sure it has NOTHING to do with LLMs but I found myself relying too much on the autocomplete that I moved back to just straight up plain bash so I would force myself to remember stuff. I don’t want to have to rely on a tool to do the work for me.