And the real maddening part is that search engines have been so enshitfied to make way for AI that’s wrong like 9/10, so you’re forced to rely on it for answers because if you try google, the snake wraps around and eats it’s own tail giving you an AI answer! stalin-stressed

  • hades@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    ·
    8 days ago

    The thing is, our entire field is bad at what we do. For most of the software the cost of error is very low, and for a long time it was a very lucrative field that attracted a lot of people who were really bad at coding. So coding with AI is not significantly different from coding without AI, it’s just that there’s now a much faster, and much less ethically acceptable way of producing code.

    • MeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      8 days ago

      50% of developers have less than 5 years of experience and the number of new developers just keeps growing too. We’re a profession of amateurs with companies poaching the oldheads out from underneath each other.