AI Didn’t Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier https://robenglander.com/writing/ai-did-not-simplify/

[nixcraft@mastodon.social]

AI Didn’t Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier https://robenglander.com/writing/ai-did-not-simplify/

Look on the bright side in a few years there will be good demand for "artisanal" software engineers and specialized IT folks who can fix this AI slop generated code at 1000$ per hour.

[poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com]

@nixCraft If all the companies that have "pivoted to AI" haven't gone bust by then. That's my main concern, people keep saying "Yes, but in a year they'll have to hire us back to fix everything", but who will hire us back? The companies who have destroyed themselves by wholesale buying into this fad?

[jnfrd@berlin.social]

@poundquerydotinfo @nixCraft money never vanshies. It just changed its owner.

Someone will have a lot of money.

[foolishowl@social.coop]

@nixCraft The richest of the rich are injecting snake oil into their veins. They no longer care if software, or anything else, actually works. They don't even care if the line goes up, because pictures of lines going up are just as good as far as they're concerned.

If get rid of them, maybe we'll survive, and then we will be able to fix things. But that's a big "if".

[poundquerydotinfo@forum.virctuary.com]

@jnfrd @nixCraft Yeah, but they won't be paying us ${WAGES_WE_MISSED} to fix things, those things will be gone. They'll be paying us ${PROBABLY LESS THAN WE WERE BEING PAID} to set up new infrastructure for new companies.

[marcusxms@helvede.net]

@poundquerydotinfo @nixCraft If they go bust that's a good thing. Better companies will replace them. Ideally many smaller companies instead of few tech giants, and companies that are less top down owned/controlled. They're legacy in so many ways.

[erikmenzel@social.edu.nl]

@nixCraft One of the big advantages of AI is that you no longer need to hire a wanker to turn everything to shite.

[gmarcosanti@mastodon.uno]

@nixCraft the 1.000$/hour will be due to inflation, not as a premium for cleaning the mess.