My coworkers by and large dislike using LLMs because they can feel their skills atrophying from disuse but at the same time the pressure from above to comply and use “AI” as much as possible is overwhelming. Layoffs target those who speak against uncritical adoption of LLMs as the future, and those who are insufficiently accelerated by AI. That metric is judged by how many pull requests you deploy to prod per day, so everyone is now using LLMs to write hundred-liner PRs with a subtask for each one and slamming the reviewers to get them merged so they look good in the (easily gamed) metrics.
Unfortunately both can be true at once. The industry seems pretty fucked. I wanna get out but I have literally no other skills that could pay for my continued existence.
I don’t think the industry is fucked, AI is still just a tool and you would need someone to guide it. The job will shift from writing to guiding and tuning. Also you will still need manual coding for critical applications. I honestly think I should have went with electrical engineering. Look on the bright side we seem to be heading to the same future as Wall-E
Yeah, shit fucking sucks. And everyone I know in meatspace is pretending it’s fine while I’m too burnt out to develop other skills and too out of shape to do manual labor.
Isn’t this accepted as true by virtually every non-FOSS software engineer, or are the devs at my workplace particularly drunk on the kool-aid?
My coworkers by and large dislike using LLMs because they can feel their skills atrophying from disuse but at the same time the pressure from above to comply and use “AI” as much as possible is overwhelming. Layoffs target those who speak against uncritical adoption of LLMs as the future, and those who are insufficiently accelerated by AI. That metric is judged by how many pull requests you deploy to prod per day, so everyone is now using LLMs to write hundred-liner PRs with a subtask for each one and slamming the reviewers to get them merged so they look good in the (easily gamed) metrics.
It’s wide spread but not universal.
Unfortunately both can be true at once. The industry seems pretty fucked. I wanna get out but I have literally no other skills that could pay for my continued existence.
I don’t think the industry is fucked, AI is still just a tool and you would need someone to guide it. The job will shift from writing to guiding and tuning. Also you will still need manual coding for critical applications. I honestly think I should have went with electrical engineering. Look on the bright side we seem to be heading to the same future as Wall-E
Yeah, shit fucking sucks. And everyone I know in meatspace is pretending it’s fine while I’m too burnt out to develop other skills and too out of shape to do manual labor.