And it's probably going the same way all the personalized software we've been seeing: used as a spam "I built this" post on reddit or hacker news and to never be touched again.
With hardware you get extra safety risks of fires and shocks, so let's see
Well and my experience of 2 years working full time with AI (and 15 others of engineering) on safety critical adjacent products tells me you're full of it and wrong.
We've had 4 teams on this model and sure it helped in some things (mostly data analysis and scripts) but generating code and doing architecture is utter crap 90℅ of the time. So much so that we've even had juniors noticing some design patterns that, and I quote: "this is one the examples of bad code we were taught in sw design classes'. The worst is how non deterministic they are. The same prompt from different people yields vastly different results
SW engineering is mostly x + y + z
Where x=planning, y=writting code and z=reviewing, then rinse and repeat.
Llm spedup y but made everything else take so much longer that equation result is much worse. Now reviewing is utter torture and during planning we're dicussing how to mitigate the pitfalls of LLM (like over engineering, too many abstractions) that we spend fewer time on the planning of the engineering itself and more on cuddling this brain addled tool
> I’m clearly much more productive now. I’m doing five things at once very effectively, switching between multiple agent sessions from morning to night. After working full-time like this for ~8 months, one thing I’m sure of is that this way of working involves much less time spent in a flow state.
What an utter piece of BS. AI goons really like to smell their own crap
If you think performance relates to speed and amount of code per unit of time yes. If you're more grounded with the reality of software engineering then no
My current company, even though slower than the industry, has started pushing AI-first for everything. Funny that as soon they announced it they started losing senior developers and most teams are now composed mostly of juniors + 1 senior.This on safety-critical adjacent products. Burnout and bugs are rampant. As a counter measure they are increasing salaries of the seniors but with low adherence.
I'm currently looking and I'm considering cutting my salary up to 50℅ to work for a company with a very interesting product that doesnt push AI and let us instead decide where to use it.
I'd rather lower my quality of life than put up with this bs and being forced to use a tool that I disagree so much on an ethical and moral pov. Let alone letting managera decide which tools I have to use on my engineering work
You're naive, uninformed or turfing if you think companies are still not tokenmaxxing.
Also tokenmaxxing was never an intentional and smart strategy employed by companies like you say. It was a mix of fear of missing out, signaling to investors they were in on the hype and recouping investmenets in data centers
This sent me through a rabbit hole of uring, kernel development and C. I've been a rust and c++ dev for quite a few years now, but there's such a simplicity and even artistic feel to small(ish) C programs.
I know this might be shocking but... You know there are other contries besides USA? There are layoffs in other countries as well? What? Yes I know wow such a suprise. Go look at a map once in a while. Now you can call me arrogant
I'm not doxxing myself by sending you news from my country.
> if such people exist because such people are not majority
Which is different from your absolute "there are none" argument.
Is the domain bullshiting?