There’s many who’s thinking is not so deep nor sharp as yours - LLM’s are welcomed by them but come at a tremendous cost to their cognition and the firms future well-being of its code base. Because this cost is implicit and not explicit it doesn’t occur to them.
> Because this cost is implicit and not explicit it doesn’t occur to them.
Your arrogance and naiveté blinds you to the fact it is does occur to them, but because they have a better understanding of the world and their position in it, they don't care. That's a rational and reasonable position.
Software engineers are not paid to write code, we're paid to solve problems. Writing code is a byproduct.
Like, my job is "make sure our customers accounts are secure". Sometimes that involves writing code, sometimes it involves drafting policy, sometimes it involves presentations or hashing out ideas. It's on me to figure it out.
Writing the code is the easy part.
This is naiveté. Secure customer accounts and the work to implement them is tolerated by the business only while it is necessary to increase profits. Your job is not to secure customer accounts, but to spend the least amount of money to produce a level of account security that will not affect the bottom line. If insecure accounts were tolerated or became profitable, that would be the immediate goal and your job description would pivot on a dime.
Failure to understand this means you don't understand your role, employer, or industry.
I completely agree with every line of this statement. That is literally the job.
Of course I balance time/cost against risk. That's what engineers do. You don't make every house into a concrete bunker because it's "safer", that's expensive and unnecessary. You also don't engineer buildings for hurricanes in California. You do secure against earthquakes, because that's a likely risk.
Engineers are paid for our judgement, not our LOC. Like I said.
Try not to use better/worse when advocating so vociferously. As described by the parent they are short-term pragmatic, that is all. This discussion can open up into a huge worldview where different groups have strengths and weaknesses based on this axis of pragmatic/idealistic.
"Companies" are not a monolith, both laterally between other companies, and what they are composed of as well. I'd wager the larger management groups can be pragmatic, where the (longer lasting) R&D manager will probably be the most idealistic of the firm, mainly because of seeing the trends of punching the gas without looking at long-term consequences.
> Try not to use better/worse when advocating so vociferously.
Hopefully you see the irony in your comment.