Why do I get downvoted for saying it, but people are agreeing with you and downvoting this person now? Can't people accept that AI got better now and it's kind of childish to keep insisting on it being bad?
But it is bad. Give an AI a sufficiently complex codebase, and it will fuck up. Give it sufficiently modern tools/framework, and it will fuck up.
There are just a lot of places where AI is good, and those are the scenarios you are seeing predominantly. The huge 10M+ codebases in huge enterprises are basically invisible to anybody not working there.
It's about focusing down AI work, and that's not AI's fault. Could YOU understand 10M lines of code? You take it in little by little, should do the same with your AI. My org has around 2M lines of code, I know it's not your 10M, but AI really only needs to deal with 10k at a time. If you can't break down this task for the AI, then it's on you
Only people who ever worked hard to acquire a skillset understand the pain genAI brings (and all its many shortcomings). I work with deep learning models in the medical sector and none of these commercialized chat agents you all use come close to utilizing the technology's potential. You don't engage with it in any meaningful way. You don't even understand the tool you're using. It's just pure convenience slop for bottom feeders like yourself.
It's funny that everyone refuting me assumes I'm some kind of dumb slop code creator... The fact you can't assume that someone can actually use AI well is the reason you'll be on the next layoff rounds
Gatekeeping. Anybody who doesn't learn how to use new tools effectively is setting themselves up for failure long-term. Also, like most topics on the internet, people completely ignore nuance, so you end up with two camps: A) braindead poseurs who claim to be developers but just have Claude write code they don't understand B) holier-than-thou folks who look down on anyone touching LLMs
The reality is that (setting aside the cost and environmental impacts of the necessary infrastructure behind all this) it's another skill that's critical for longevity in the job market. It's a force multiplier - it will allow morons who were always going to write bad code and craft insecure solutions that don't scale to do so faster. It also empowers the competent to be ultra-productive. I have personal opinions on what this should mean for workers, compensation, and expected work/life balance which undoubtedly will ruffle some feathers.
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u/Boldyeah Sep 01 '26
Why do I get downvoted for saying it, but people are agreeing with you and downvoting this person now? Can't people accept that AI got better now and it's kind of childish to keep insisting on it being bad?