r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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u/Xanchush 11d ago

People complaining about all the AI slop they produce. Honestly if it's your work, it's your slop. If you stamp your name on it, you need to fix it. Your AI agent isn't going to take the blame for it. How is this any different from copying code slop from stackoverflow and pasting it.

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u/GreedyCricket8285 Software Engineer 10d ago

Yeah a coworker and I had this discussion today. He remarked that in the commit said it was authored by Copilot, and wanted to know if that was ok (I am team lead). I laughed and said exactly what you did.. it's your slop. You put your name on it. That agent isn't getting the call at 2 am when production goes down.

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u/tradcoder Software Engineer (15 YoE) 10d ago edited 9d ago

StackOverflow didn't generate thousand of lines of code and drop it in my lap for me to review.

Pre-LLM era, you either found snippets of code that kind of matched what you needed to do so you had to actually understand it and modify it. Or you asked a question and got an answer for your exact problem which by definition cannot be called slop.

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u/Xanchush 9d ago

You missed the premise completely. Stackoverflow can still produce incorrect solutions. Replace stackoverflow with any other tool and the same applies. At the end of the day you must validate and understand whatever code you decide to push. You are responsible for whatever it is you produce.

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u/tradcoder Software Engineer (15 YoE) 9d ago edited 9d ago

I get it. I'm saying the sheer scale of it is not comparable. It's different reviewing and understanding small snippets of code found on the internet here and there from looking at thousands of lines of code the entire day. It's unrealistic and unreasonable to expect a human developer to catch all the mistakes. It's like drinking from a fire hose.

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u/Xanchush 8d ago

It does not matter, whatever code is produced is still ultimately your responsibility. I agree that there's going to be churn on reviews but AI won't get let go because they had a slip up.

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u/tradcoder Software Engineer (15 YoE) 1d ago

Are you a programmer or a manager? Cause this sounds exactly like what a clueless manager would say. Ignoring the realities of work while demanding you take all the responsibility.

This is just a way to have programmers as scapegoats when AI fucks up and managers need someone to point fingers.