I was happy to have a good product owner.
But these posts are trying to gain plaudits for their technical skills and hard work.
When in fact they owned the product, rather than demonstrated the hard work and dedication of years past.
I mean I’m happy to congratulate the agents they used. Phwoar, look at those weights. Impressive!
Playing devil's advocate, AI is now standard tooling for any CS adjacent engineering discipline. The question then (IMO) is how this compares to what someone else would accomplish with the same or similar tools.
I’ve accomplished the same end result with the demo button—in fact it may sound nicer. Is pressing the demo button more impressive?
People regularly do impressive things with LLMs. Somewhat more commonly, they do unimpressive things with them.
Essentially, I admire lengthy effort and dedication and how that sharpens your intellect. It’s hard for me to admire people who have bypassed that.