Pointless rant. Please ignore. I'm a software developer and we all know how AI has changed our industry. How we work or why we're fired and why we can't afford PCs.
Anyways, we're already all forced to use AI already and we're already atrophying the minds of our juniors. It's great.
New team meeting and one of our managers tells us that we're never going to write code anymore at all. The AI will read the JIRA ticket and create the pull request (change request to the codebase) on GitHub. Our job is to only review the code on GitHub and then rank how well AI did and then comment and then get AI to fix it. We have to do this so we can improve the AI process. Which is funny because none of the people who plan this AI shit are data scientists. The only way they can change things is by promoting, it's not like we're releasing our own coding models but anyways ... He's like, now you should be able to do much more work and just review PRs all day now and that we should never be doing only one thing. You can only tell AI through a GitHub comment to fix a mistake and then you can start reviewing the next thing.
We were like, if it's a simple fix why can't we just fix it?
"Because we need to improve the AI process"
But then, I have to context switch.
"Yes that's the point you can come back to it later"
Why come back to it later when we can solve it now? We can even use AI to solve it now.
"No, we want you just comment on the PR so the bot can handle it"
Context switching is free apparently... It's actually infuriating because apparently we're not using IDEs any more. I personally use the GitHub plugin to review PRs in my IDE but no one else seems to do it so I don't think they even took that into account.
These guys have auto merged AI code that's taken us weeks to unravel and which we still haven't fully been able to fix. They just merge shit all the time and a lot of it is fucking slip. AI merged hundreds of tests and no one cares when they break. They didn't configure prettier because AI doesn't use it so it breaks out formatting when humans do it.
I ranted to my own manager for 30 minutes about it today and he was just as upset because every developer is now asking what exactly are they doing. My manager asked me what I would do. I said the process sucks but what are we supposed to do as devs. If I review 20 PRs a day, how is the company going to ensure my skills are gonna be sharp? What are we doing about taking in ideas from regular devs? How do we ensure code ownership when we're just merging tickets we don't write and code we had no hand in shaping?
Sorry. I actually thought I had faith in my company with AI because they were coming up with thoughtful approaches but it seems like utter incompetence.
It’s not just you. This is happening everywhere in the industry.
Management has no idea what they are doing, and thinking this AI shit and these nonsense workflows will somehow work. I predict within the next two years there will be so much broken unfixable spaghetti code, entire large scale systems will no longer be maintainable. There will be so much confusion on even what kind of approach to take to fix this. This will be what people thought Y2K was going to be.
I've been out of the game for 10 years, but I developed professionally, some very high level shit...
I've done tons of business analysis and all that baloney
This AI fucking bullshit is going to present the greatest financial opportunity ever seen by individuals who are competent at programming and can do it without AI
Now is the time to see the opportunity, buckle down, and start finding ways to create solutions and products that solve the problems AI makes
This whole situation is complete bullshit, I'm not trying to be forgiving towards it. But those who are truly rock star developers and know what they're doing, can become millionaires with some hard work
In some ways I wish I didn't intentionally walk away from technology 10 years ago... My skills have lapsed to the point that they're not relevant anymore beyond the core skills... But if I was still remotely in the game, I would be looking for any business opportunity where I can improve the output of companies that have shot themselves in the foot
The reaper is going to come calling for the companies that went all in on this... Just wait 6 more months man (or person) and watch the fallout
Income was supposed to be a metric of usefulness, but it no longer is because the metric itself has become the goal. Now, its perfectly normal to say things like: "If you just ignore your moral issues and work hard, you could be rich!".
I think you might be missing the point of the complaint in this post a slight bit.