2026-03-29 17:47 UTC
@glyph @dreid @aredridel At some companies there's huge pressure from fairly ignorant/credulous leadership -- or worse, leadership with a financial incentive to promote use of tech that doesn't really work-- to pump out lines of code with these things. This has predictable outcomes.
Microsoft/GitHub has a history of doing this, but this time the bad tech speeds up the bad code production instead of getting in the way and slowing people down.
I don't know how to express online with its context collapse problem exactly how mixed my opinion is about all this. Writing software is changed forever AND using these tools has a real place in your workflow if you learn how AND it's a horrible mess because capitalism has its usual incentives.
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 17:49
@ceejbot @dreid @aredridel gathering my opinions about this is apparently a months-long project here so I will have to get back to putting that on the blog
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@dreid@wandering.shop 2026-03-29 17:59
@ceejbot @glyph @aredridel there is the assumption that they won't make bad code forever so we'll just use them to replace the bad code with better code later. Also we can put the person who committed the bad code on a PIP while ignoring the organizational defects that prevented putting any safety procedures into place. On paper there is lots of interesting stuff happening. But in practice I can't figure out a way to use it without enriching the worst fucking people.