this seems to translate "we fucked it so hard with trying to vibe code a real thing, your job is to fix it and take all the blame"

[flaviusb@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard Incredibly low pay rate for that level of job as well - a job that would have paid $2M+ per year and they want it for $360k-$480k lol.

Even when they are doing the 'rah rah we need super skilled important people' thing to try and attract people, they are still like 'but AI means we don't have to pay you much because you are just an AI herder, not a programmer'.

[flaviusb@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard (Also also 'last line of defense, 100% responsibility for everything including all of the money stuff' and they say 'senior' instead of 'staff' - clown shoes)

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@ariadne @davidgerard oh wow, some of what they listed makes me think this is absolutely the job from hell.

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@duke_of_germany @davidgerard My criterion is enough money that after six months, I can do exactly that for the rest of my life.

(n.b. - I do think quite highly of myself. But nobody, including me, is worth that kind of money.)

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@duke_of_germany @davidgerard And the work, assuming I did, would actually be fending off the bozos while I did a complete rewrite.

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@ariadne @davidgerard

• Values accuracy over speed — a ledger bug in production is worse than a week of delay

lmao, if only there were some way to (as the cool kids are saying these days) 'shift left' such concerns.

[davidvedvick@fosstodon.org]

@davidgerard something tells me software engineering will remain alive and well

[fred@social.fthevenet.eu]

@davidgerard

Much of the codebase has been generated by AI.
[...]
We need someone who can look at all of this and say: “this will break in production” — before it actually does.

Not sure the "looking at it" step is even necessary, tbh.

[tubemeister@mstdn.social]

@davidgerard Oh I can do that for free even:

I can look at all of this and say: “this will break in production”

GLWT

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

spotted by @froztbyte

[brohrer@recsys.social]

@davidgerard the idea of “engineering reliability” as a coat of paint

[barubary@infosec.exchange]

@davidgerard Look, all the hard parts are already done: infrastructure, distributed systems, database design, encryption, financial flows, etc. Now we just need someone to bolt on safety and security after the fact. How hard can it be‽

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard @dysfun these are the types of jobs I used to take on

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@ariadne @davidgerard i mean i did too, but usually not knowing how bad it would be.

[wakingrufus@bigshoulders.city]

@davidgerard
They tried to vibe-code a PCI-DSS compliant payment processing system??? Lol. Lmao.

[speculationfictive@union.place]

@davidgerard This is satire, right? Right?!

[rycochet@furs.social]

@davidgerard Scapegoat wanted, must be willing to face all the consequences of our decision making and surrender a future career elsewhere because of the reputational harm when we throw you to the wolves.

[dukeboitans@mas.to]

@davidgerard why they don't just ask claude to "not make any mistake!"

[abucci@buc.ci]

@davidgerard@circumstances.run While I wouldn't put it past an AI-pilled startup to try using AI to poorly "solve" a problem that was solved by the Mesopotamians, I wonder whether this is real. The user joined twitter this month, and has only the one post. It's so over the top absurd it's hard to believe a real human being would write it, let alone post it.

[malvarma@tiny.tilde.website]

@davidgerard i dont get it. Why can't they just ask claude to review the codebase and fix all the bugs?

I am told that ai always works, you just need to prompt harder.