small rant incoming
I work for a company that it’s mostly hardware focused, but we do ship some software for the final consumer including drivers and programs, to make use of said hardware.
While I am not in the software department, I held some SWE positions in previous companies for over a decade, our software isn’t very complex and I do know most of it pretty well.
Our employee just announced a new AI-only development cycle, they want all code submissions and reviews to be exclusively done by claude, effectively ending ownership of the code being shipped to customers. This is absolute madness.
Today, I received an email scheduling a workshop on how to integrate claude into vscode and how to work with the new gitflow, namely removing our authorship from commits and having al code reviews done by a LLM now.
I am just baffled at the decision.
edit: wow I’m a bit overwhelmed by the response, I did read all of you. Thanks!
I’ve been thinking about AI in the workspace recently, these companies are implementing AI into everything despite our comments to remove it. that got me thinking, the US is currently in an economic bubble on an empty promise that AI will someday be relevant. It clearly isn’t benefiting society as of late, so they encourage workspaces to use it and to continue hoisting the stock market by it’s propaganda (that it is relevant).
Because workspaces know the US is in deep shit right now, and so you know what’s worse than delivering shitty software, an economic crash.
don’t put this on yourself, preserve the shitty code reviews while the US goes through an identity crisis. Investors will inevitably come to the realization that it isn’t sustainable.
its apparently is actually hurting the economy, and society. making people in school unable to formulate setences, writing structures, research.
Yeah, my theory is that all the VCs and large shareholders are heavily invested in the companies making profit (or lack thereof) from AI use, so they’re pressuring other companies they’re invested in to use the AI. I think this was pretty common even before AI.
Your point could have been made without an ableist slur.
What do you mean?
The r-word in the top commenter’s first sentence is a slur against the developmentally disabled.
in MY first sentence?
Fixed, thanks.
You realise that the meaning of that word can literally be applied to holding something back? Ignition system on a car fuelling adjustment : advance/retard. You don’t see this anymore because the engine management does it for you.
You understand that that is a pedantic point and practically useless and irrelevant, yes?
Congratulations, you found a nonslur usage of the word. That doesn’t make it less of a slur.
I didn’t find it, that’s what it means, same as queer means ‘weird’ Both of those meanings predate the other usage.
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