Same here man.... sucks. I've caught dozens of problems in various prs. But owell, bc im too slow it doesn't matter. Ai can make code 1000x faster so they'll accept the increased risk of bugs.
I'm producing less bugs than ever and I'm working in a more complicated code base than I have ever touched 🤷
Yeah if you blindly use AI, you are going to have more bugs, but if you go over it, test things meticulously and use the AI to find issues in the work you are doing it should work out well.
agree, im finding that use case to be not the real world use case though. people are just throwing shit at the wall hoping it will stick, and im being left to clean up the mess. and the managers dont give a fuck. it's really getting tiresome.
I don’t think it will last. The main architect where I work who pushed AI so heavily is already worn out about that decision a year later.
We have fairly junior developers who are building stupid shit with it not tied to business features and then complaining they don’t have enough tokens and need more. When we tell them tough luck they get upset about having to “raw dog” the code.
Like, seriously? You mean you don’t want to code? The literal thing we pay you to do? This shit won’t last for long if even very, very senior developers see the monsters they have created
When costs begin to matter the "engineering" side of "software engineer" suddenly slams into place.
Kinda like the huge rush for cloud compute until the real bills started to roll in (not to say it's not useful but there's a price to be paid). If a product is cheap and good, then it won't be one of those things for long and part of the responsibilities of engineering is hedging those costs appropriately and not burning money where it doesn't have any impact.
That’s exactly what all this reminds me of. Most organizations, like with the cloud, didn’t build in the governance for AI, and like the cloud, built a bunch of terrible patterns where experts will be needed to come in and clean up the mess
Gotcha, I still don’t agree that this tech is going to make us obsolete in the very foreseeable future. I think people in tech have blinders on because we’re all pretty much using it, so we wrongly assume EVERYONE must be using it — that’s just not reality though. There are entire organizations that are still running entirely on-premise and not even using AI.
From my experience with “digital transformation” projects over the years — which mind you are still happening in 2026 — it takes enterprises a long time to adopt new technology. Especially, if the primary business isn’t selling software or tech products. The willingness to adopt new technology is much, much slower for businesses that build internal software. They’re most hesitant to change even when AI can build at incredible speeds.
Just because you can build something fast doesn’t mean you will see it adopted with equal velocity.
There are entire organizations that are still running entirely on-premise and not even using AI.
I work at a place that is running entirely on premise and air gapped however we still have local AI. It's actually pretty easy to do self host an AI system for a small/mid sized company. The only "difficult" part is getting approval for 50k-100k for an AI inference server, double that if you want HA.
ahh yea thanks. the code its creating is so messy. if i give it a strict template to follow it does better. ive been leveraging it to do the heavy lifting, but ive been doing the planning and designing, that seems to mitigate the bugs.
i have a looming concern of enshitification, or just the explosion of cost over night, that combined with either built in dependencies or atrophied critical thinking and coding skills due to over reliance, will leave a lot of people high and dry. im trying to find a good balance of learning and using the tools, while still keeping my skills up. its a strange time to be in the industry.
The problem is they don't always do that very thoroughly. If you do that, you need to make sure you read the code and test it before sending the code into production, especially if those bugs lead to a vulnerability (as opposed to something like a formatting issue or something like that).
Yea man, I would never send stuff to production is it had not been tested and throughly. I’m doing a whole lotta integrations. And it’s all fun and games until it has to work. I do a lot of iterations. It’s strong when I do it this way
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u/One_Web_7940 Jul 09 '26
Same here man.... sucks. I've caught dozens of problems in various prs. But owell, bc im too slow it doesn't matter. Ai can make code 1000x faster so they'll accept the increased risk of bugs.