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Entirely possible I’ll eat crow and look back on this as a major mistake.

I think the issue would be with complacency. After reviewing so many changes it could be easy to say “eh - it’s probably good” and merge it. I don’t have confidence in it’s output the first, second, or third time.

I think another issue is if I was using it in a domain or something I wasn’t familiar with like hardware programming. That’d be a bit like the blind leading the blind.

Gotcha – I have no doubts that LLMs can steer things to shit at breakneck speeds.

I certainly wouldn’t mind some more (competent) employees.

This is about the same behavior I’m accustomed to. I will say that my current work is more greenfield at the moment.

First plan is about 60% there. And then we have a few iterations to get that in good shape.

Once the plan is together I send that to a virtual machine to implement the code with low/no supervision.

Then it goes into a draft PR that I will review and provide further guidance on changes or updates. Those iterations will happen on either my virtual or local machine, depending on how much the work is.

I could imagine It would be pretty difficult with hardware, where you have to compile, and potentially transfer to a chip to run or test further. But I will say, if you can give an LLM access to the whole loop of write, compile, test and reading error logs the results can sometimes be impressive.

Yup. I guess it’s also worth noting my past couple jobs have been from my network - so the interviews have been more of a informal behavioral/culture fit. But I won’t pretend my network will always give me that flexibility.

I would say I’m the main motivator. But it is motivated to fulfill deadlines. It’s not something that I hide from my boss or coworkers.

API/Data Engineering for SAAS products. No one will die if I do something dumb - it’ll just cost money and/or reputation if things go very bad.

I’m on the fence here.

I’m still steering and guiding the design - with knowledge gained over many products, features and incidents - and am reviewing it.

To scale higher such that I could be replaced then I think the change sets would have to be smaller and/or we have perfected bug/incident detection and remediation such that we can bypass human review of the code.

I certainly foresee this happening and/or my ability to perform any future white boarding interviews adequately.

I find my skimpy metal thongs work wonders on days like this.

I put unripe in there. Just takes a while for them to ripen.

Avocados

I’m perfectly capable of hating middle and lower class people also.