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Comment by eli_gottlieb | Hacker News Reader

> just "pull my ticket, do my ticket, push my ticket. i am a developer."

IME a lot of people are now subject to output-rate expectations that preclude doing much else, honestly.

In general, it's bizarre that people look at problems this systemic and conclude that they are primarily a failing happening at the level of individual contributors. This organizational rot didn't even start with LLMs, though it's certainly been accelerated by them

myopic systems are one thing. developers and product leaders outright refusing to even click on pages and test features before they go to production is worse than their orgs simply being bad. many developers i work with can barely even reason with decisions anymore without consulting the agent. it is worse than simply saying the orgs are bad.

It's a feedback loop. I've fallen into something close to it (Thought not on the level of just not testing things before I ship them) myself once or twice under pressure. If there are deadlines that get tighter and tighter and execs and managers make credible threats about them and every checkpoint takes days, and every time you look for feedback people are doing PR reviews with AI and saying "IDK ask claude" and giving you LLM output in response to your questions then you're going against the grain by having standards in a way that could threaten your job security. If you happen to have the kind of power that lets you push back successfully in your organization, or the kind of organization that will actually take pushback seriously and not just label you a problem for it, I encourage you to be the change you want to see in the world. I think a lot of people don't meaningfully have that option. I have already found that out the hard way once. This tech is not unique in having modes of usage that are lazy, addictive, or sloppy. The difference here is that the culture from the top down in a staggering number of organizations is creating active pressure to use it that way

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