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Didn’t we learn anything from the past? Using loc or number of commits or github stars to measure success or productivity is so backwards. It seems everyone on the AI wagon is either young (and so they don’t know our history) or simply forgot about all the good practices in software engineering

I have worked with people like you. Worst colleagues ever.

One difference is: to use a top notch compiler/assembler you don’t need to pay. They are open source and have a lot of support. To use the latest and greatest models (bc no one around likes to use non sota ones) you need to pay a premium price.

Multibillion dollars companies are now the gateway for every line of code you need to write. That’s dystopian. It sucks

But business people always cared only about thr result. My PM (who speaks like a salesman) only cares about the results. My “head of” same. My ceo same. The only ones who ever cared about the process and quality were us the engineers… if we don’t have that care, well, to hell with everything

Agree except for this part

> If you're at work and they really care about getting something out of the door, do whatever you think is best.

If you don’t mind being jobless, sure do whatever you think is best. Not all of us can simply switch companies easily. Folks need to realise that AI in a company setting works for the benefit of the company, not for the individual.

Solution is to normalise that using LLMs is not cool anymore

There are 2 bands: you let people earn a living or you let investors/executives become richer every year to the detriment of workers. I don’t care about the medium, Im not with the big fishes

That’s fine. Some people cannot (don’t want to) think about the more profound consequences of their actions. No one likes to stop for 10min and think deep about what they are actually doing. The easiest path is always to stay in “robot mode”: my boss pays me $ for my job… therefore I need to satisfy that contract. No time to think”

And your parents must be proud of you. You’re just another cog

Stop it. You are just making ceos like coinbase’s richer and right.

Im your CEO. I see you and the rest of your peers have doubled your productivity in the last 2 months because of claude. Good job! Now since we don’t really need to go that faster, ill fire half of you so I and my investors friends can make more profit.

Now of course, you may think you are such a good engineer that companies will kill for you… perhaps that’s true now, but its not true for 90% of the engineers out there. And as the pool of engineers gets reduced, the chances of you being not as good as you thought go up. So the real question is: can you (we all) still make a good living by not using llms. You know support each other and fuck the higher ups? No, we cant. Wwe are full of ourselves, full of elitism (this is HN). We are rational folks, we believe in numbers, in data; we know what we deserve. fuck the rest. The ones who win are the higher ups, of course, not us.

As long as AI is being introduced by multibillion dollar corporations, it’s all a trick, a scam. They are just looking for increasing their valuation. A waste of time

Didn’t get the “scary” part. I also keep my entertainment to the minimum dependencies possible. I try to rely on stuff I own: music cds, iso videogames + emulators, physical books or ebooks (thanks Anna), exercise outdoors… ditching streaming like netflix/youtube, buying crap on amazon, uber, etc

Why TS? The npm ecosystem is insane and insecure. Not a chance we are running this in our machines.

Go/Rust way better choices. Besides, if it’s all vibe coded, it shouldn’t matter for the author

You are wrong. We should ditch walled gardens like twitter/facebook/ig

It’s not about them being smart or not. It’s about giving anthropic/openai/google the power to handle our future. Haven’t we learned anything about tech giants so far?

Any engineer (any person actually) can “learn to use AI” in a couple of days. It’s not rocket science; there’s no chance of left behind. If you haven’t use LLMs at all, a weekend would be enough to be on par with everyone else in the industry

We are moving steady without breaking things. So we don’t typically use llms for 100% of the code (we rely on it for prototyping and for code in the edge: like sdks and the like. For core functionality we have very good senior engineers)

90% of the stories on HN are AI related. It’s normal to have so many bots nowadays. If HN dies, wouldn’t be the worst thing tbh

Why do you care about github? It’s Just another corporation doing what they know best: harvesting money. The software ecosystem can live without github just fine

I haven’t seen a single ai-based product that’s relevant and making money.

In all the companies i have worked for, ai hasn’t been a productivity multiplier

What the hell are you talking about? More value to society? By allowing the usa military to use their models? You must be a sadic

These are the worst kind of engineering managers. Arrogants, god-complex, always serving the company instead of serving the employees

Nothing? Why would you want to upload code to the cloud?

Wtf. This post has 3 accounts opened in less than 48h ago which are talking to each other with AI flavours. I suspect they all are managed by the same person.

It should be trivial flag such behaviour

TDD in 2026? Besides, TDDs main benefit is to come up with a decent architecture for your system… LLMs can already do that if instructed. I don’t see the point of TDD

Good try, Sam Altman

There is enough good material pre 2022

But why give Anthropic/openai our money? Nonsense. Use open models

How are they disrupted by AI? Like the times I have used LLMs is the terminal… while I still have the Jetbrains IDE open