Local boss doesn’t understand what his employees do all day
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Fucking hell, 80% of my job is finding out what the requirements are. 20% is then using a specialized language to write down all these requirements and the thousands of decisions I make on how to meet them.
If AI somehow replaces those 20% coding,
- I still have to do 80% of my job, and
- I still have to tell the AI all this shit, just this time in natural language, which is awful for codifying requirements.
How is this guy a manager, but has no idea what a software engineer does all day?
This is why engineering managers need to come from engineering. If they couldn’t help out in the codebase in an emergency situation, they shouldn’t be making decisions like this. It’s not unreasonable for ELT to ask questions about this but if their reporters are not telling them the truth, the whole structure is broken.
All these CEOs and CIO have been huffing too much paint
The prospect of cutting out all those $130k salaries is a hell of a drug
I would personally adore seeing amazon's infastructure ignite in flames over this terrible idea
God, please let Amazon crumble under the weight of its hubris in my lifetime.
Project manager tells coders that project management is a much more important and irreplaceable job
In a leaked recording, Amazon cloud chief admits he doesn’t understand software development, also doesn’t understand the current AI offerings’ capabilities, and just wants the Amazon stock price to rise so he can buy a bigger boat.
Doubt that for the next decade at least. Howver, we can already replace CEOs by AI.
A chinese company named NetDragon Websoft is already doing it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-ceo-artificial-intelligence-b2302091.html
If you want to play with fire, Mr. Amazon Guy, don't be surprised to get burned. :]
The only person in my company using AI to code writes stuff with tons of memory leaks that require two experienced programmers to fix. (To be fair, I don't think he included "don't have memory leaks" in the prompt.)
I find that my programming speed is up 15-20 percent since I started using supermaven copilot. I also have become better at naming functions as it increases the odds of the copilot understanding what I'm trying to do.
Also writing tests go way faster.
Are you able to share what kinds of applications and what languages you write in? I'm still trying to grasp why LLM programming assistants seem popular despite the flaws I see in them, so I'm trying to understand the cases where they do work.
For example, my colleague was writing CUDA code to simulate optical physics, so it's possible that the LLM's failure was due in part to the niche application and a language that is unforgiving of deviations from the one correct way of writing things.
Sorry I didn't see this earlier.
It's very vanilla node backend stuff with popular Frameworks such as koa and nest so that makes it easier to give me good assistance I guess.