Pointless rant. Please ignore. I'm a software developer and we all know how AI has changed our industry. How we work or why we're fired and why we can't afford PCs.
Anyways, we're already all forced to use AI already and we're already atrophying the minds of our juniors. It's great.
New team meeting and one of our managers tells us that we're never going to write code anymore at all. The AI will read the JIRA ticket and create the pull request (change request to the codebase) on GitHub. Our job is to only review the code on GitHub and then rank how well AI did and then comment and then get AI to fix it. We have to do this so we can improve the AI process. Which is funny because none of the people who plan this AI shit are data scientists. The only way they can change things is by promoting, it's not like we're releasing our own coding models but anyways ... He's like, now you should be able to do much more work and just review PRs all day now and that we should never be doing only one thing. You can only tell AI through a GitHub comment to fix a mistake and then you can start reviewing the next thing.
We were like, if it's a simple fix why can't we just fix it?
"Because we need to improve the AI process"
But then, I have to context switch.
"Yes that's the point you can come back to it later"
Why come back to it later when we can solve it now? We can even use AI to solve it now.
"No, we want you just comment on the PR so the bot can handle it"
Context switching is free apparently... It's actually infuriating because apparently we're not using IDEs any more. I personally use the GitHub plugin to review PRs in my IDE but no one else seems to do it so I don't think they even took that into account.
These guys have auto merged AI code that's taken us weeks to unravel and which we still haven't fully been able to fix. They just merge shit all the time and a lot of it is fucking slip. AI merged hundreds of tests and no one cares when they break. They didn't configure prettier because AI doesn't use it so it breaks out formatting when humans do it.
I ranted to my own manager for 30 minutes about it today and he was just as upset because every developer is now asking what exactly are they doing. My manager asked me what I would do. I said the process sucks but what are we supposed to do as devs. If I review 20 PRs a day, how is the company going to ensure my skills are gonna be sharp? What are we doing about taking in ideas from regular devs? How do we ensure code ownership when we're just merging tickets we don't write and code we had no hand in shaping?
Sorry. I actually thought I had faith in my company with AI because they were coming up with thoughtful approaches but it seems like utter incompetence.
Engineering is a joke here.
Our manager doesn't care. I've got some coworkers who are very pro-AI though. Every time we talk to them, they mention the word "AI" every five minutes, talking about how we shall let AI write our code, try out the new "agent" and "skill" they've made.
For the love of god, those "agents" are simply fucking markdown file! You wrote a crap document which isn't even grammar-checked!
People channeling code reviews written by AI to GitHub's PR comment section and call it a day. Damn it. I asked you to read my code and give your idea both between lines and from higher up, and you give me some shit I could have generated by myself! Your credibility has dropped to zero.
And what is up with writing test cases with AI? Oh, just because it doesn't fuck up the production even if it becomes shit? Guess what, fuckers, it does! Test cases are an important line of defense against bugs. It ensures no bad behaviour is introduced after a change. We'd better trust a strong security dude guarding this gate, no? You fuckers what, put fucking Frankenstein at that position? I trust the code you wrote, not some fucking probabilistic machine slop! Who cares how good the code AI generates? It was you who I trusted, not "it"! You broken the chain of trust and I guess I won't be trusting you from now on!
I ran something on Opus 4.8 or something two weeks ago and it ignored my rules and when asked why it was like, "yeah I read it but i ignored it"
That's another thing about this is when they say: "tell us what PRs are bad so we can improve the process"
None of these guys are data scientists ... what are they going to do? Bloat the context? There's reasons for why any PR isn't acceptable and any instruction they're secretly writing can change over time.