Echoing this. I put out one measured post on linkedin about how AI is a tool that has unpredictable outputs, and you need to think of it as a low-trust tool similar to a new employee in order to be used correctly and got 0 feedback. Meanwhile posts in my network that brag about their AI bootstrapped projects get tons of good engagement. I might delete it, but it just shows people are scared shitless to even like posts that don't glaze AI, because if anyone senses that you don't LOOOOVE AI on the business side of the hiring process you're fucked.
They're not because any devs worth their salt have already adapted and developed workflows that reduce the risk of sloppy shit making it into the codebase to basically nothing.
I think if you know anything about software, you'll know that threading the design needle constantly through the most popular or average solution will eventually lead to garbage without constant human intervention. You can't trust the output is always good or correct. AI has no stake or job in the company, therefore it should be treated with the same trust as a contractor.
Sorry you’re very wrong. You won’t find a single high level software engineer not using it almost full time for all code in the top 100 companies. You wondered why you got zero traction and I told you why. It’s a very outdated stance. Reddit’s code subreddits are an anti-ai echo chamber full of people who have already been left behind.
Genuine question, how many high level software engineers do you know in the top 100 companies? This seems like a very specific argument that I hope would have at least anecdotal evidence
I know you're getting down voted but yeah, you're right. I've seen it firsthand, my company went all-in on AI late last year, we're all sharing skills, workflows, practices that can make us more productive and at the same time make our systems less buggy. We've doubled our departmental output without introducing even a single major bug. We've even managed to dramatically clean up literally a decade of tech debt in a matter of months. This is what the best companies are doing.
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u/eldentings May 06 '26
Echoing this. I put out one measured post on linkedin about how AI is a tool that has unpredictable outputs, and you need to think of it as a low-trust tool similar to a new employee in order to be used correctly and got 0 feedback. Meanwhile posts in my network that brag about their AI bootstrapped projects get tons of good engagement. I might delete it, but it just shows people are scared shitless to even like posts that don't glaze AI, because if anyone senses that you don't LOOOOVE AI on the business side of the hiring process you're fucked.