But what happens when the exec level managers are done with all these AI training sessions and rollouts and realize nothing has improved?
What about the loss of productivity of developers who are forced to entertain tons of noise about AI and take training and attend sessions which do not increase their productivity and instead takes time away from real work?
Are employers running a software shop or a church?
What happened when they all pushed cryptocurrency and nothing actually came for it? Nothing. They just stop talking about it, quietly shutdown their revolutionary services.
What happened when they all pushed for metaverse things? Nothing. Shutdown quietly, move to the next big trend you’re not allowed to ignore.
That’s it. That’s the pattern. Here some companies will get a bit of value, most won’t. Though the job of software engineer has been transformed that’s the main real impact. But companies who didn’t get much value from all their AI projects will shut them down quietly, and LLMs will just became another tool in the standard company toolbox. Until a new trend comes along
AI is a religion that promises CEOs, VCs and other various assorted sociopaths the promised land of not having to pay for the most expensive part of any business, its workers. They will do anything and everything in their power to reach this promised land, regardless of the cost to themselves, to their businesses or to society at large.
It is entirely irrelevant to them how useful LLM tech is. It doesn't matter that productivity is the same as it ever was just with a 10-fold increase in costs due to token-maxxing behaviour. They don't care if their software is buggier than ever, or their workers unhappier than ever, because AI promises to replace them anyways
I rather enjoy Finder as a power user and software engineer who stopped using windows 20 years ago. Although I do have to use it for work occasionally. Windows explorer is nothing to crow about. Its definitely worst of breed. It misrepresents the file system more than any tool I have used and its a buggy disgusting piece of software that has 3 generations of windows trash still left in it that MS refuses to clean up.
Say what you want about Finder, but only a Windows devotee would dare put Explorer in a pile of anything to emulate. It is the worst of all possibilities and in that sense fits the host OS to a "T"
The asteroid is the author and his horrible attitude towards software development. People giving in like this is an indication that they really didnt have much to offer in the first place and viewed "dev experience" as he puts it as just some way to be clever.
Also when someone says something like "I literally worked on a browser performance team", using the parlance of a middle school cheerleader to describe that work, I dont have a feeling that these experts bowing out is really going to have much impact.
In general, I have always felt UI, and UI adjacent developers to be the least serious of us and this article backs that up.
The person "watching" should be actively engaging and helping to build the "theory of the program" (in the Naur sense) through questions and conversations. If they're just sitting there silently they aren't doing the practice. (Also, I prefer to work with both developers having a keyboard and mouse. You still should have one person driving, but the other person can jump in and directly make changes instead of having to use the other person as a puppet.)
In our current environment using AI, individual development also "doesnt scale", so this "doesnt scale", 2X.
I think these proponents of AI have a very large burden on them to not just make this palatable for developers, but to actually make it "scale" as you say.
The human code review process for AI generated code will simply die due to lack of interest. Its up to the organization to find a suitable replacement or continue to pretend that half asleep disinterested developers are going to fix all this trash.
Collapse of entire economies will result on a scale that will eclipse the great depression. And it wont be because AI revolutionized anything. AI will become a dirty word to never be uttered by anyone in the human race after.
You cant really complain about the ecosystem if you insist on using an iPhone. What you think is interop is viewed by Apple as hostile and if they could find a way to sue you for it they would.
What about the loss of productivity of developers who are forced to entertain tons of noise about AI and take training and attend sessions which do not increase their productivity and instead takes time away from real work?
Are employers running a software shop or a church?
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