@tante I particularly keep caught by this :"Being forced to sit and argue with a robot while it struggles and fails to produce a working output, while you have to rewrite the code at the end anyway, is incredibly demoralizing. This is the kind of activity that activates every single major cause of burnout at once."
Senior Devs without influx of Junior Devs will burn out. A steady supply with Junior Prompters will not help.
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Salem's Lot (salemslot@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jun-2025 07:13:15 JST
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tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Jun-2025 07:13:17 JST
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"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."
Very insightful post on #GenAI by Glyph
(Original title: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now)
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html
Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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