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 think the easiest way to make an immediate change is to never call/talk to, or about it, as you would a person.
I dont use LLMs at all, but my wife does an i always correct her to say “It said…” when she tells me “He said…” every time she uses it instead of google to get an answer. (And then tell her to find me a trusted website that backs up the LLM as well)
Dehuminise it so theres always a part of your brain treating it as a machine/device, not a person you can trust.
Its like saying “my car broke down, she isnt feeling well”. The car broke down, it needs a part, do i trust my car? Usually but i wont be suprised if it doesnt work some times.
And i dont expect it to be able to swim if i try make it instead of using the vehicle i should have been using.