god imagine how depressing dev would be if all programmers did was clean up AI slop.
I really don’t think people realize how opaque and circuitous some of this shit is.
An acquaintance of mine has basically been doing this for years in the form of slop code written by the cheapest outsourcing firms on earth who cannot comprehend rudimentary requirements and have no concept of coding standards. But management insists this is the most cost effective way of doing things, rather than just having a competent group of qualified people do it right from the start.
It seems as depressing as you’d think.
nightmare territory that.
So, if you worked on it first, do you get a discount for watching and helping, because it doesn’t add up?
This is software engineering and apply basic of statement logic, the hourly rate is the last if statement that was true.
Personally, I make it acccumlate the rate for a max rate of $520 when all if statements match.
The reason is that humans are expensive, and they don’t want to spend their time programming simply if they can get an AI to give them a functioning project with much less time and effort - at least, commercially.
who cares if it works or is maintained or maintainable or secure or does what it’s supposed to or works after an update anyway
There really is no greater pleasure and no greater value adding activity for a Senior Dev than to wade through masses of code produced by pretty much understanding-free copy & paste from stackoverflow by an automated version of the most junior and clueless coder imaginable.
This is your brain on marketing
Oh man, imagine how crazy things will get once management realizes they can stop paying all the vibe coders and just let the expert human coders at it from the start! They can even let them use the leftover AI licenses for shits and giggles.
Wait until they figure out how senior engineers learned all this stuff.
Uphill both ways in the snow I’m sure
Actually… yes. This was back when “source control” meant keeping the code on an extra floppy in a dusty desk drawer, and “security” meant throwing an extra lock on the office door, and “looking stuff up” meant trying to find useful books at the local bookstore. It was awful.
Just create a new AI that’s specialized in cleaning up vibe code.
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With all the reasoning thrown around, I’m wondering why the fuck such an advanced system would write JavaScript and not directly machine code.
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