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!

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
      13·
      5 days ago

      Time for some quality control and optimization.

      Claude, take our codebase and generate a set of unit tests to evaluate the code functionality based on the current snapshot.
      Now port this code to Rust and add comments describing how each function is different. Run the same set of unit tests to evaluate the new Rust code against the existing code. If any unit test fails by more than 0.01% remove the Rust code and regenerate it from scratch.
      Evaluate both the current code and Rust code for readability and documentation. Generate full source documentation for each line of code.

      etc etc. You’ll have half a datacenter cranking for a week. They won’t appreciate the bill…