It’s hard to describe how soul-sucking the process of handing over development to an LLM is, at least for some of us. Even if I have the luxury of reading the slop and wrestling with it, there’s something mind crushing in the process. I don’t understand exactly myself why I hate it so damn much. There’s something psychological going on. I’ve worked with no purpose before, coding stuff because management says so even if I knew it was going to tank hard or it was clearly wrong. This hits different. It’s worst than boring. It’s worst than loss of purpose.

“LLM is just to replace the boring parts”

The boring parts so far:

• Writing and reading emails (aka communicating in the written form with other humans)
• Taking notes in meetings (aka paying attention to people when they speak to you)
• Documenting systems (aka letting your future self know what was going on in [insert year])
• Designing systems (aka letting your present self know what is going on)
• Building systems (aka doing your fucking job)

What is even the non boring part? Ordering machines around? Whatever happened to “ideas are cheap execution is everything”?

What have you switched to career wise?

Basically what I feel like, except I’m too young and I’m not even close to not needing a salary. I’ve been pushing back; I bought some time. I’ve spent all my willpower on this now and the cancer is still growing. I’m pretty much done. The uncertainty that comes with career change doesn’t look so bad anymore compared to whatever this “work” feels like.

I don’t believe AI is about to take over the world and annihilate humanity. I still think Sanders’ move is a good one. This puts AI gurus in an impossible position: either admit the hype is overdone or accept being represented purely as the greedy psychopathic vilains they are.

The fact that other animal species engage in recreational drug use makes me think that this behaviour started before homo sapiens.

It’s more a question of agency than ability. Take this excerpt from the announcement:

For a company that sells subscriptions, an AI assistant justifies a price increase and strengthens the case for keeping all documents within its own infrastructure. The functionality and the business model reinforce each other, so integration is not only attractive but almost mandatory.

Anyone employed in such a company will have a hard time resisting. There’s a mix of unrest and despair in the discipline right now. I’ve met colleagues drastically change careers over this. Sick leaves over mental health too.

Nah, exposing yourself to an unsafe workplace with the plan to leave if/when you get hurt is NOT a good plan. You did the right thing. Please give extra pets to dog.

Valuing yourself by the danger you pose to the world is so terminally machist.

I’m seriously worried some bros would find this non ironically appealing. Incidentally these are probably the target demographic for the product. I’m happy this subversive piece states clearly to the rest of us what Meta would prefer to dog whistle. I love love love ad subversion. We are relentlessly subjected to increasingly dystopian omnipresent consumerist discourse and an answer is necessary.

Please don’t show this to my boss.

Oh?

This weekend was my second date with a really sweet guy! I cannot remember ever feeling so alive.

Do you have evidence of leaders in the organization making hard choices to do the right thing?

This went from a hard yes to a soft no and I don’t know if it’s soul crushing but it feels super crappy.

megabool is_boy(const Coder *coder);

Just a heads up you forgot a word between “you” and “me” I think

I’ve been wondering the same, so hard. I feel like at this point I’d like to see a comparative study of the job of people that see it VS the job of people that don’t.

I remember some twenty years ago when I finished college I had this internship that turned into a summer job afterwards. Prestigious organization in fancy skyscraper. Our teachers were a bit nervous about it since it was the first time the got the org to accept interns and made it clear we should be extremely grateful and well behaved, or else.

Godfuck the job was boring. This massive tentacular place had a million subdivisions doing roughly the same thing in a different region but somehow each had enough torque to get to have their own little website with a different interface design and a handful of different fields. Our job was to rewrite backends from [boring old basic MS tech] to [shiny new overengineered MS tech]. Dozens and dozens of roughly alike but not entirely identical backends. After months of work there was still at least as much to do as had been done. The architects in place had no desire for harmonization or reuse. They knew be heart the features the seemed to rewrite periodically in a fancier ways.

Sometimes I wonder how many places feel like that, how many programmers embrace the repetitive churn, oblivious to the affront against the very core of software this represents. If these are the ones that see it.

If I had to guess I’d say some corporations specialized in fucking up ecosystems bribed him. As a result they will enjoy a short term increase in profits (or at least in stock market valuation) from being able to conduct business unchecked.

I’m far from having the final say on anything at my org. They’ve just decided not to embrace the slop. Sorry you’re in that kind of your company. Just be careful with skill atrophy.