No, the company is exactly paying their employees to solve puzzles, which company labels them as problems or requirements.
And when an employee focuses on solving puzzles and enjoys it, the code naturally ends up in production, and gets forgotten because the puzzle is solved well.
But there is no “puzzle” to solving most enterprise problems as far as code - just grind.
And code doesn’t magically go from dev to production without a lot of work and coordination in between.
People can see it as grind. But the pleasure comes in solving the meta problem instead of the one in front (the latter always create brittle systems). But I agree that it can becomes hell if there were no care in building the current systems.
I just told it to do it.
It got the “create S3 pre-signed url to upload it to” right. But then it did the naive implementation of download the file and do a bulk upsetting wrong instead of “use the AWS extension to Postgres and upload it to S3”. Once I told it to do that, it knew what to do.
But still I cared about systems and architecture and not whether it decided to use a for loop or while loop.
Knowing that or knowing how best to upload files to Redshift or other data engineering practices aren’t knew or novel
I would have been just as responsible for their inefficient implementation in front of the customer (consulting) as I would be with Claude and it would have been on me to guide the mid level developer just like it was on me to guide Claude.
The mid level developer would never have been called out for it in front of my customer (consulting) or in front of my CTO when I was working for a product company. Either way I was the responsible individual
It's such a shame that everyone only cares about "faster" and not "better"
What a shameful mentality. Absolutely zero respect for quality or craftsmanship, only speed
My employer just like any other employer cares about keeping up with the competition and maximizing profit.
Customers don’t care about the “craftsmanship” of your code - aside from maybe the UI. But if you are a B2B company where the user is not the customer, they probably don’t even care about that.
I bet you most developers here are using the same set of Electron apps.
Just because things are this way doesn't mean they should be or that we should just accept that they must always be this way
Everything is a race to the bottom. The only way I can justify not being in presales is because I can now do the work of 3 people with AI.