Comment by righthand | Hacker News Reader

Comment by righthand | Hacker News Reader

IMO no one is taking even the first bit of software development advice with Llms.

Today my teammate laughed off generating UI components to quickly solve a ticket. Knowing full well no one will review the ticket now that it’s Llm generated and that it will probably make our application slower because of the unreviewed code gets merged. The consensus is that anything they make worse, they can push off to fix onto me because I’m the expert on our small team. I have been extremely vocal about this. However It is more important to push stuff through for release and make my life miserable than make sure the code is right.

Today I now refuse to fix anymore problems on this team and might quit tomorrow. This person tells me weekly they always want to spend more time writing and learning good code and then always gets upset when I block a PR merge.

Today I realized I might hate my current job now. I think all Llms have done is enabled my team to collect a pay check and embrace disinterest.

Job market is currently really bad, it has never been worse. Two years ago, it was almost impossible to find an expert for a more specialized domain like computer vision or RTOS. Now, it’s impossible not to receive applications from multiple experts for a single role (and that’s only counting experts; senior and junior software developers or architects aren’t even included) that isn't even a sepcialized role and at best, "just a simple" senior role.

That's surprising! Thanks for letting us know.

Do Not Quit until you have accepted an offer from another job. I'm serious. Don't do it. It's fucking hell out there right now for tech jobs.

I am in the minority who agrees with you that the code should be right.

Don't quit. Get fired instead (strictly without cause). In this way you can at least collect some severance and also unemployment. You will also absolve yourself of any regrets for having quit. Actually, just keep doing what you're doing, and you will get fired soon enough.

The other thing you can try is to ask for everyone to have their own project that they own, and for the assigned owner be fully responsible for it, so you can stop reviewing the work of other people.

This is good advice. If you quit, you don't get severance nor do you get UI. If they let you go, you do.

severance isn't a guarantee in say usa tho

Personally, I consider this horrendous advice.

If you're not in step with where you're at, and you can find other employment where you'll be happier, why not change?

You could apply your same logic to, "If you're in a relationship with a significant other, don't break up with them... get them to break up with you! You will absolve yourself of any regrets of dumping them." Yes, and you will have wasted both your time, and their time.

And the same goes for working at a company that you feel isn't good for you.

Sorry to hear your situation, but that doesn't really sound like it's LLM's (a tool in the end) fault, more that poor ways of working are a norm in company you work at. Not much would change if you replace "LLM" with "Consultancy" in your post. And it's hard to really connect the dot between "generated by llm" and "slow" -- code performance doesn't really depend on whether it's being generated or typed out.

No, I disagree.

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