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Comment by RobRivera | Hacker News Reader

Is this a poorly instructed llm? Or a poorly constructed thought?

It's lived experience. My management is a lot happier when I move too fast to really pay attention to the problems and use my expertise, and the output is good enough that nobody really complains. Building most software is no longer skilled work; it takes minimal training. The industry just hasn't caught up yet.

Well. I own my business and I really hate this attitude that some startups executives have. I want quality. Not blind speed. I want speed to be a by product of a well built product and a system that builds it. Not a bunch of slop thrown over the wall that I have to then debug and fix.

The AI is pretty good at debugging and fixing it. It's quite a bit better at it than writing the code, to be honest.

And, you're right, I used to enjoy my job a lot more before AI. But in the end, the paychecks keep coming, and I can produce a lot of acceptable code quickly with little skill. Skill in coding no longer makes economic sense.

This approach accumulates codebase-understanding debt and the call to pay the piper could come at any time

Maybe. Challenge for you: take the last 10 production outages, and paste the symptoms into Fable or Opus 5, and ask it for a diagnosis.

How many does it one shot in less time than your outage lasted?

Yup, if you know what to point it at - where does _that_ skill come from? Experience.

Ouch, I painfully agree :l

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