The actual writing of correct syntax was never the bottleneck in development projects, but management is not ready to hear that they are the problem.
Like one developer reported: Management demanded AI use, the most senior developers took retirement, and the management hired kids with AI experience, but no knowledge of the actual product. The codebase got bloated by a factor of three, bugs by the factor of ten, and nobody actually knows anymore how the product actually works.
No it hasn’t.
The number one thing AI has removed from labour is their bargaining power.
Why the fuck do we post such obviously false headlines?
Turns out giving every developer five tireless AI interns doesn’t eliminate work. It turns them into unpaid middle managers of five interns who confidently submit broken code at 3 a.m. Management sees five times the output; developers see five times the pull requests. Congratulations, we’ve automated coding and scaled up the headache.
As a manager of 4, I now get 20x the AI slop PRs I have to read through and try to convince the developers they’re doing it wrong. AI use has made my job way more exhausting and while productivity increased, it’s fairly obvious that understanding has not. Even my most senior team members turn their brains off and become meat proxies.
I have to keep reminding them “I don’t care what Claude found, I care what you think about it and how you’re personally going to own a fix for it”.
They run Claude it makes a PR and even if you pay close attention, no one knows what a PR someone else wrote as well as the person who wrote it.
What I find even worse than this are product leaders who think they don’t need to provide requirements! Imagine building a car and being given a photo of a bike.
fuck ai
What works for me is to delegate the time consuming things I don’t like to do so I can focus more on the coding.
Why aren‘t workers happy about new means of production that they don‘t own? Are you serious?
