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!
@hushable I feel you. My workplace has been the same. The latest requirement is that instead of 2 week sprints (which more or less amount to having most of a week of QA and potential last minute fixes) to “sprints of a couple of days because we’re an AI-first company now”
Cool, but 1) before the mandate to use AI people were already under pressure to use it and there have been no productivity gains, so this seems optimistic, 2) are we outsourcing QA to the hallucination machine?