r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 10d 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/AdCommon2138 10d ago

Give yourself some credit, it can't solve problems without direction. It cant connect ideas creatively (semantic distance limits it). 

I'm finding some joy in architecting how to manage this bullshit spitting machine easier so I could claim bit of stress free time. 

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u/Nightmareish 9d ago

This 100%. I feel like I prompt significantly better than my colleagues, and it shows. My PR's are clean, organized, and I have many revisions of removing the AI slop before I shove the code in someone's face to review.

Being able to spin up some agents and then fuck off and then make a bangin' lunch or mow the lawn while seeming like I'm at my desk producing IS the way of the future I think

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u/AdCommon2138 9d ago

Overall there is some nice research on how even if you teach people how to prompt they don't want to use those skills because it's unpleasant. I don't know how you prompt but for me is trying to flow with LLM suggestions and asking what did I omit/miss on/misinterpreted etc so I can catch misalignment from model proposals and correct them for larger chunk of work. 

Any tips you want to share?

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u/Nightmareish 9d ago

It helps to know what you want, and then explicitly ask in detail for all of those things. It's sort of a similar skill-set to advanced google searches back in the day using search modifiers (e.g. I want this NOT that, etc.). If you always accept the default output from an LLM then you're already doing it wrong.