- Do we want this? Cost/Benefit etc
- Is the change architecturally right?
Particularly the latter LLMs seem still pretty useless at.
- Is the change architecturally right?
Particularly the latter LLMs seem still pretty useless at.
Although I do think that LLMs have made it much easier to justify writing low-value code which can make this more common now.
But AI has engendered a collapse in developers’ ability to actually do that. Those of us who are stuck on the vibecoding bandwagon have lost the comprehensive understanding of the systems under our care that we need to understand and explain the quality and maintenance implications of a change.
Worse, if you happen to lose your mind and suggest the initial development cost is anything more than ~zero, your friendly neighborhood Claude keener will publicly shame you for not having sufficient faith in the Glorious Agentic Future. Product leadership will then have no choice but to side with them, not necessarily because they agree, but because they, too, are aware that we’re still in the phase of the hype cycle where openly questioning said hype is a career-limiting move.