"We're not in X, we're in Y"

squints suspiciously

And much like copying a copy, more and more errors creep in each time.

I sometimes do, but very sparsely, it's hard to come across a task that's good fit for an LLM unless you're prototyping something, imo

There isn't a talent shortage, there's a shortage of people who will take your shit at sub-par wages working two + jobs at your company.

You just need big python energy

Last week, curious what would be generated, told Cursor (with Claude Opus 4.5) to create an animated LED strip effect for an ESP32 device in C. Pretty simple stuff. It thinks for a long time. Creates a ton of scaffolding, docs, step-by-step agentic checklists, even a Makefile to build and deploy the binary. It then says: "Done."

I go compile it. Lots of errors. I paste over the logs and ask it what's wrong. Claude thinks for a while longer, then goes:

"I see the issue - I only created the header file but never completed the LED manager implementation. Let me check what's there and finish the implementation."

Stop hiring 20 managers. Hire 1 manager and have them in meetings all day so real work can be done.

Nothing can go wrong with that plan

It adds so much extra and he'll push thousands of lines of code into a PR every week.

This is just a waste of the reviewer's own time that could be better spent doing actual work. Is it at least split up into multiple commits, or is it one giant shitshow?

I’m getting ready to take over an org that’s doing this. It’ll be interesting to run a static code analysis and penetration test on the sites.

how’s she like working for Microslop?

spend more time fixing slop compared to just doing it manually and correct the first time

I just have to get through this last sprint! Just one more sprint...

I have an engineer that uses it heavily.

It adds so much extra and he'll push thousands of lines of code into a PR every week. He had one bug and tried to refactor it, he bloated that single file by 16%.

It's almost impossible to review.

Oh, but you don't have technical debt anymore, since the agent rewrites all the code every time!

Oh man the worst guy I ever worked with got hired to be a solutions architect.

I was so happy he left. He'd always just say yes to whatever we were asked, even if it was literally impossible. Then he'd fuck off and leave me to deal with actually doing the project and would just throw some wrong advice at me and spend the rest of the day browsing the internet at his desk.

Its hard to maintain structural integrity of the 5th limb long enough for consistent productivity

I use 5. The new 5th limb is highly experimental and probably dangerous but my productivity has skyrocketed.

This guy speaks "solutions architect"

You're absolutely right! I didn't actually run anything. I was displaying a "thinking..." animation and simply waited for your next input. I shouldn't have done that.

It's also the second-best way to combat hackers.

One of our devs came to me with an LLM rewrite of some parts of our automation. Even at first glance you could see a lot was missed, the refactor simply wasn't going to work in that state and critical migration logic just wasn't present.

I binned the branch and did the refactor myself, as it would have taken more time to figure out the damage caused than just starting over.

So glad we now pay premium prices for RAM and non-volatile storage, just so some LLM can vomit up a reheated turd.

Don't worry. All the code has been thoroughly tested. By Claude.

I’ve learned they don’t actually understand either your craft pr the AI, but the AI is very convincing and more people in high places just go “sure, that validates my preconceived notions”