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!
It’s great if you could have found the answer on Stack Overflow and applied it to your code. It’s legitimately useful if there are easy (but maybe tedious) ways to accomplish your goal.
It’s terrible if you get too vague or what you’re doing isn’t common. It’s worse than terrible if you can’t tell or refuse to believe when it’s useless.
It’s here to stay. It’ll likely replace the concept of ORMs, and it’ll kill the need for a lot of third party tools.
It’s not going to replace many workers. If it were used responsibly, it’d just make people’s jobs a bit easier and make software generally more polished and complete. Instead it’s going to bury those projects that use it responsibly in AI slop projects.