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.

So which is it? Are developers 55% more productive, or are they losing 20% of their time to inefficiencies and burning out at record rates?

The answer: executives are measuring—and reporting—what makes their stock price rise, not what’s actually happening on the ground.

Or if you want to get slightly more conspiratorial: the execs are all buying shares in OpenAI, Nvidia, and the like - so now they're more interested in ordering people to use LLM tools so that these stocks rise in price, even if it means sabotaging their own company.

The pitch is, for those that have never coded it’s a gateway into a skill they never wanted to learn

I’m simply whelmed by it

You never hear someone ask “how can a socket wrench help us with this problem”, why do we do it with LLMs?

Spitting bars.

I’m working as a TLM for a company that’s only recently become AI maximalist… I see myself in your writing 🫠

Amen.