WFH

Thanks OOP for putting words on what I’ve been feeling for months.

Were “incentivized” (read “threatened into”) pushing features quicker than humanly possible with no regard for quality, sustainability and proper ownership of the code to please one (1) stakeholder who had a barely thought out idea. The amount of tech debt in staggering, broken features come and go as the code is “rewritten” with each commit.

It’s completely unsustainable and the only ones who profit from it are the LLM providers. When the whole product collapses, the only one to suffers the losses are the company building that product and their clients. Their employees get fired because it’s somehow their fault. LLM providers get even richer because now the remaining employees burn through tokens to try and “fix” millions of nine of code nobody has ever thought out, written and reviewed.

Companies pivoting to “full AI” code are literally committing suicide, for the exclusive benefit of LLM providers. I get that that’s Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s plan all along. I just can’t understand the utter stupidity, hubris and amount of kool-aid drinking most CTOs are riding right now.

Mine has lost more than half capacity, I’m really tempted to replace it but tbh using a heat gun to melt the glue is kinda scary.

I’m not using it for the incentive. I’m using it to avoid punishment. The company I work for made it mandatory to use it daily. So I’m tokenmaxxing bullshit tasks so I can focus on interesting ones, but yeah I already feel it’s making me lazy because I sometimes can’t be bothered to read a log anymore. We are truly fucked.

This company is working on terrible assumptions. They spent years hunting for the best engineers in the country (or so they pretend to anyway) and suddenly decided that

• we are average at best and it is better and faster than most of us (it’s not)
• software engineers don’t like to write code anyway (we do, at least when the challenge is interesting)
• it will forever be more affordable than properly qualified engineers (oh boy it won’t)
• a PM with Claude is as qualified as us to bring features to production (talk about tech stack suicide)
• etc.

They either have drunk the propaganda koolaid and betting everything on this lie, or are so arrogant they think we can succeed where the largest AI investors in the world utterly failed (see GitHub that can’t even get 3 nines of availability since the switched to full-ai-code).