> Your company isn’t paying you to solve puzzles.
Actually they are, but it's also true that you need to put solutions in to production.
Actually they are, but it's also true that you need to put solutions in to production.
When things are put to production as soon as possible without respect to quality, we see what's happening all the time.
Bloat, performance problems, angry customers, Windows 11...
You get the idea.
If companies cared about bloat and performance you wouldn’t see web apps with dozens of dependencies, cross platform mobile apps and Electron apps.
I've just written the fifth from-scratch version of a component at work. The requirements have never changed (it's a client library for a proprietary server, which has barely ever changed). I'm the 5th developer at the company to write a version of it.
All because nobody gave engineers the breathing room to factor the solution in to well thought out, testable, reusable components. Every version before is a spaghetti soup of code, mixing up unrelated functionality in to a handful of files.
No well thought out interfaces. No automated end-to-end testing, and no automated regression testing. The whole thing is dire and no managers give a fuck.
AI cannot solve for a lack of engineering culture. It can however produce trash faster than ever at these toxic shops.
On the other hand, AI doesn’t care about sloppy code. I haven’t done any serious web development since 2002, yet I created two decently featureful internal websites without looking at a line of code authenticated with Amazon Cognito. I doubt for the lifetime of this app, anyone will ever look at a line of code and make any changes using AI.