My sister-in-law is a software engineer and project manager. This isn't groundbreaking news or anything but she said that her engineers are using generative AI like this. The problem is that it created exceedingly inefficient and bloated code that barely works. En masse it will bog down systems due to the exponential inefficiencies.

It's fine. Everything is fine.

Hahahaha this idiot thinks that it's the speed of our typing that ships code faster. He's in a knowledge shortage.

"The new skill isn't typing faster".

Since I added a second keyboard I am programming twice as fast and don't even need AI!

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

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.

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."

man does this dude think the hardest part about writing a book is fucking typing it out? someone give this dork a swirly

Do people actually use agents for production code? I feel like it is one of those things that people don't use but is sold to us that everyone uses. A lie to promote bullshit.

Yea…..but how may developers are you going to have to pay to maintain that shit?

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

squints suspiciously

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.

Prompt: "write a python script to create a thousand linkedin accounts with plausible sounding names, and then setup a cronjob to post every day a punchy linkedin just-so story explaining why everyone should be paying for my LLM and to keep paying for it when I jack up the price 100x to cover my expenses"

I hate LinkedIn and all the fuck holes on it so god damn bad

Techbros calculate programming skills by lines of code per shift.

It only makes sense that they would think "10x engineer" just means "types 10 times as fast."

3 months later they rehired all of those four engineers to fix all that bullshit useless code.

Ah yes one of those bootlicking linkedin lunatics

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

Nothing can go wrong with that plan

Thought we were on !linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works for a moment.

guy in the business of vibe coding hypes up vibe coding

There's going to be so much awful slop code everywhere in the future.

"Talent utilization crisis"

"Hire 1 engineer instead of 4"

Yes

I think my management is decent about receiving feedback, but are also very into AI utilization right now. I’m not sure what level of feedback to give, because I do feel being too obstinate and negative would mark me, and with my adhd I often dont have a good read on where that line is. But I’d love to press them on where it will stop being worth it to keep pushing it? When the venture capital dries up? Climate/local data center regulations finally get implemented? Because those will all drive token cost up by a lot

This was definitely written with AI.

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.

What a delusional sack of shit. lol