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The Grimdark Future that is Generative AI
(blog.magosomni.com)
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Aside from all the financial and anti-social considerations, I think AI is "vindication" for all the middle and upper managers who felt engineers were either lazy or precious about their work. "See, I shouted at the computer and it did what I wanted in seconds instead of months! Why can't you do that, nerds?"
Unfortunately, voicing concerns about quality will only reinforce this dynamic.
And while I agree broadly with what you wrote… AI writing unit tests? God help us all.
P.S. neologism alert: morged.
It also doesn't say "no" like those nerds keep doing
Haha, like I said in the foot note. If you don't like it, good! "This is not a good use case, let's scrap it and move on" is a perfect thing to say here.
It's the only thing I could think to try it with that I could easily audit results for. It mostly works. But there are a few things it does that causes me to scrap results
Often though I can keep some of it and just scrap the bad parts. And if it causes me problems I'm happy to quit it. It's not revolutionary. I'm just whelmed.