Hey at least it doesn't appear to be written by AI

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[–] 12 points 15 hours ago* (2 children)

Documentation and testing are both necessary things that few like doing and historically have often been neglected at the cost of poor communication, inefficiencies and reliability.

english is not my native language but isn't the sentence wrong? i thought "at the cost of" shouod be followed by things suffering from whatever is before

like "I'm prioritizing making money at the cost of my sanity"

we are being left behind here, and it is an existential threat to the success of the mission itself.

there is zero evidence being presented about this btw, its just "everyone is doing it so we must too"

This is not the death of expertise. The LLM is fast. You are slow, but you carry with you a lifetime of experience, judgment calls, and understanding.

except it is because once those engineers quit or retire, the newer and younger people will NOT have learned tbe expertise needed to guide LLMs, do they have any long term vision? this setup works only for the current generation of code savvy employees

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago (1 child)

    The sentence works here, "at the cost of" can refer to the consequences of doing something. So in this case neglecting documentation and testing comes with the cost of communication, inefficiency, etc.

    Incidentally as you allude to with their workforce aging out, Proton is prioritizing making money at the cost of their sanity

    There is no long-term strategy though. Line's gotta go up in time for the fourth quarter, if it tanks next year that's next year's problem

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago

    The sentence may work but it isn't grammatically correct; you'd need either all negatives or all positives.

    It should be either:

    ... neglected at the cost of poor communication, inefficiencies and unreliability.

    Or:

    ... neglected at the cost of communication, efficiency and reliability.

    Personally to me the latter sounds smooth and the former still feels clunky. If they wanted to highlight the negatives it would be much better to phrase it something like:

    ... neglected, leading to poor communication, inefficiencies and unreliability.

    Though I've generally stopped using "leading to" because it sounds like AI.

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