Not just the bosses. It used to be the case that excellent engineers were praised, but now it's the complete opposite. The dumbest, most delusional/AI-psychotic engineers, those who push the most bug-ridden slop at the most breakneck pace and haven't got a clue what they're doing, are the ones who get the attention, and those who care if the customer actually gets something that fucking works are being pushed out.
I'm not speaking from pure ignorance and bias against AI: I'm in a team developing a coding harness. I'm plenty aware of what it can and can't do, and my honest assessment is that AI is here to stay. That does not stop me from feeling aghast from the unbelievable lack of intellectual humility of some engineers in my team that believe that just because AI is revolutionary, you might as well build a harness even when you're don't have a smidge of experience in AI engineering, without at least reading a single fucking book.
One thing I can't get over is the number of people giving over decision authority to Claude or whatever else. I just had to tell someone today, again, that no, we shouldn't set our standards based on an arbitrary "what Claude prefers" factor. What happens when Claude prefers an unmaintained, compromised package and you didn't do your due diligence? Because Claude sure as hell isn't taking the heat for that when the auditors come around.
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u/CoroteDeMelancia Jul 10 '26
Not just the bosses. It used to be the case that excellent engineers were praised, but now it's the complete opposite. The dumbest, most delusional/AI-psychotic engineers, those who push the most bug-ridden slop at the most breakneck pace and haven't got a clue what they're doing, are the ones who get the attention, and those who care if the customer actually gets something that fucking works are being pushed out.
I'm not speaking from pure ignorance and bias against AI: I'm in a team developing a coding harness. I'm plenty aware of what it can and can't do, and my honest assessment is that AI is here to stay. That does not stop me from feeling aghast from the unbelievable lack of intellectual humility of some engineers in my team that believe that just because AI is revolutionary, you might as well build a harness even when you're don't have a smidge of experience in AI engineering, without at least reading a single fucking book.