Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software
hisao@ani.social 1 week agoWhy though? I think hating and maybe even disrespecting programming and wanting your job to be as much redundant and replaced as possible is actually the best mindset for a programmer. Maybe in the past it was a nice mindset to become a teamlead or a project manager, but nowadays with AI it’s a mindset for programmers.
Feyd@programming.dev 1 week ago
This part.
hisao@ani.social 1 week ago
The fact that I dislike it that it turned out that software engineering is not a good place for self-expression or for demonstrating your power level or the beauty and depth of your intricate thought patterns through advanced constructs and structures you come up with, doesn’t mean that I disagree that this is true.
Feyd@programming.dev 1 week ago
The problem is that you don’t realize that writing code that is difficult to maintain is in fact not a sign of intelligence, or “power level”.
hisao@ani.social 1 week ago
It depends. If it’s difficult to maintain because it’s some terrible careless spaghetti written by person who didn’t care enough, then it’s definitely not a sign of intelligence or power level. But if it’s difficult to maintain because the rest of the team can’t wrap their head around type-level metaprogramming or edsl you came up with, then it’s a different case.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 1 week ago
lolwut? I’m so tired of tech people acting like they’re the next Genghis Khan or Julius Caesar…
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Yup. I assist with hiring and ask questions to try to find these people and reject them. I don’t want that toxic culture here, and I’d absolutely prefer working with someone less talented than someone who is toxic like this.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
If your code is as comprehensible as that run-on sentence, I can understand why coworkers would ask you to please write simpler code.