The Eternal Sloptember
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I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.

I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    10·
    1 day ago

    If you’re letting your engineers find uses for it instead of constantly demanding that they generate lengthy “user stories” and decision documents and deferring thinking to agents instead of quickly planning stuff out using their experience then you’re probably quite an outlier by now.

    • blargh513@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      91·
      1 day ago

      I am a very lazy man, micromanagement takes so much fucking energy. Hire talented people, give clear and unambiguous guidance and trust them to do the work. It is amazing how easy management can be when you don’t get in the way.

      Being in leadership is way easier than being an engineer and the pay is better too. Some people really overcomplicate shit.