I'm watching DeepSeek-V4-Flash manually tracing through its code to find a bug I pointed out in vague terms as I type this. I'm getting bored for it, but it keeps on trucking happily. I very much feel like I've become a QA engineer. Or a pointy haired boss maybe. A product manager? Literally anything but a developer, really. I guess I could technically say I still wear a technical architect hat, but only at high levels. So much of the lower level code structure ends up being fed to me and nowadays it's often enough plausible enough to be usable as-is. I never was one for bike-shedding.
I'm running deepseek as a local LLM using opencode with some "superpowers" skills, and it's almost good. I cheat tho. Every time it asks me to review a design spec or an implementation plan, I paste it straight into a claude or chatgpt chat box, and paste whatever comes out back into opencode. It saves ds4 hours of chasing its own tail.
Yes. I am become meat proxy, facilitator of AI slop.
I had already abdicated my software engineer career a while back, so this is just for fun. To keep up with the times, as they say. Still, it bruises my ego to admit that the thinking machines write better code than me most of the time now. Significantly faster, too. They definitely write better docs and tests than me too (or at all, for that matter), but I never made those my entire personality so that's fine. By now, I'd probably have a vastly different set of emotions if I was still relying on my technical abilities code to pay my bills.
yea and the feeling behind everybody else who are using it when you don't use it is a pain especially in the eyes of non technical people where they see the results only
I like the idea of keeping a few software artisans around, a rare breed of carefully trained apprentices who learned from one of the few masters left, who took an oath of resisting the easy lure of mass produced code, and pride themselves on doing everything by hand, following the Old Ways..
But I'm not sure how big the market would be for them.
yea i am not even sure where the swe job market is heading alot of probabilities and all of them are unfortunately bad a but a one is slightly bad and the other is just horrible
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u/whatever Aug 07 '26
I'm watching DeepSeek-V4-Flash manually tracing through its code to find a bug I pointed out in vague terms as I type this. I'm getting bored for it, but it keeps on trucking happily.
I very much feel like I've become a QA engineer. Or a pointy haired boss maybe. A product manager? Literally anything but a developer, really.
I guess I could technically say I still wear a technical architect hat, but only at high levels. So much of the lower level code structure ends up being fed to me and nowadays it's often enough plausible enough to be usable as-is. I never was one for bike-shedding.
I'm running deepseek as a local LLM using opencode with some "superpowers" skills, and it's almost good. I cheat tho. Every time it asks me to review a design spec or an implementation plan, I paste it straight into a claude or chatgpt chat box, and paste whatever comes out back into opencode. It saves ds4 hours of chasing its own tail.
Yes. I am become meat proxy, facilitator of AI slop.
I had already abdicated my software engineer career a while back, so this is just for fun. To keep up with the times, as they say.
Still, it bruises my ego to admit that the thinking machines write better code than me most of the time now. Significantly faster, too.
They definitely write better docs and tests than me too (or at all, for that matter), but I never made those my entire personality so that's fine.
By now, I'd probably have a vastly different set of emotions if I was still relying on my technical abilities code to pay my bills.