I wish the hate was more widespread, I also work in the tech industry and there are plenty of people who i have to work with who have given themselves up completely to having Claude do everything for them. I have never been so frustrated not only trying to keep up but also fixing problems overlooked by LLMs and then absorbing LLM generated responses to pr reviews or to why something broke in production
I’ve come to the conclusion that this is just the tech industry in general, not just AI. It’s been deeply unserious for a while now, cutting corners, throwing ethics out the window, just trying to get rich quick. But for the most part, they had to pretend to be serious people. Now AI is giving them a reason to give up the pretense and go mask off.
there used to be enough senior engineers to reign them in most of the time, but now they can just out-shit the serious engineers who can’t keep up with all the shit, and management’s obsession with AI is giving them the free pass to get away with it.
I think it really started some time around 2010, when the promise of easy money as a software engineer started attracting more people that do not really care for the craft, just to earn well while phoning it in with an easy desk job*. And AI really empowers that crowd.
*not saying this is necessarily wrong given that a lot of tech companies suck and if you leech off of them, well, more power to you. But it does not make it fun to work with those kinds of coworkers.
“Stunned the tech industry”… I’m in the tech industry and we all hate how LLMs are being used.
I wish the hate was more widespread, I also work in the tech industry and there are plenty of people who i have to work with who have given themselves up completely to having Claude do everything for them. I have never been so frustrated not only trying to keep up but also fixing problems overlooked by LLMs and then absorbing LLM generated responses to pr reviews or to why something broke in production
I’ve come to the conclusion that this is just the tech industry in general, not just AI. It’s been deeply unserious for a while now, cutting corners, throwing ethics out the window, just trying to get rich quick. But for the most part, they had to pretend to be serious people. Now AI is giving them a reason to give up the pretense and go mask off.
there used to be enough senior engineers to reign them in most of the time, but now they can just out-shit the serious engineers who can’t keep up with all the shit, and management’s obsession with AI is giving them the free pass to get away with it.
I think it really started some time around 2010, when the promise of easy money as a software engineer started attracting more people that do not really care for the craft, just to earn well while phoning it in with an easy desk job*. And AI really empowers that crowd.
*not saying this is necessarily wrong given that a lot of tech companies suck and if you leech off of them, well, more power to you. But it does not make it fun to work with those kinds of coworkers.
My favourite new term for those people is ‘meat proxy’.