Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There’s also the tribal knowledge of people who’ve worked somewhere for a few years. There’s always a few people who just know where or how a particular thing works and why it works that way. AI simply cannot replace that.

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  • fritobugger2017@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Institutional knowledge takes years to replace.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      there’s so much negligent work here I swear they did it on purpose.

      Depending on the place, it’s the “work insurance” - companies would usually think twice before firing the only person who can understand the spaghetti. Now they won’t need said person to generate “working” code

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• heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s what I expect if I’m fired and rehired: at least +25% on my salary.

  We hired a junior at work from a prestigious university. He uses ChatGPT all the time but denies it. I know that because all his comments in the code are written like some new Tolkien book. Last time I checked his code, I told him it had something like 20 bugs and told him how to fix that because I’m not a bad guy. The next day, he came back with a program that was very very different. Not knowing how to apply my fixes, he used another prompt and the whole thing was different with new bugs. I told my boss I was not wasting time on that shit again.

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• FatCrab@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well, also if the guy was just dumping AI generated code arbitrarily into your product, that pretty significantly risks the copyright over the entire product into which the generated stuff was integrated (meaning, anyone can do whatever the fuck they want with it).

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • FatCrab@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m an IP attorney whose been pretty specialized in ML-enabled technologies for a decade now, and have worked in-house for fortune 500 companies so I’m pretty familiar with how these queries are often handled, especially at multinats. There honestly probably isn’t someone in your legal with all three of seniority, understanding and keeping up with the legal nuances, and understanding of the underlying technologies. The overlap in my experience is few and far between.

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