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I kind of envy people who need to clean up after others. At least you're puzzling. My current job is genuinely just boring. It's tasks that are so simple, a junior could do it. But no, instead they needed a medior. I'm not saying I'm better than this, nor that no medior will pick it up. I just cannot push myself to care about the code this company makes. It's old, dusty and it serves no one of importance. These custo…
It's a pity that the article ends cautiously with recommending to perhaps adapt AI usage practices. In this climate we are not there yet to publish the unfiltered opinion that generative AI is garbage and should be disposed of. Soon we will be.
Please write a manual on how to cleanup after AI rockstar managers who think they can code. Much needed right now as I slept only two hours since yesterday after solving a SEV-0 and having to wake up after a 2 hour nap, so I could be now cleaning up the fallout before business hours. I am not a AI-denier, I am actually thankful I have AI right now to multiply my force, but frankly, people STILL need to review that fu…
> Please write a manual on how to cleanup after AI rockstar managers who think they can code. Why are you allowing AI rockstar managers to (I assume) push without code review? Why are you cleaning up the fallout? It's not AI issue, it's people issue
Same as it ever was.
The only difference now is that if you let it happen, it'll happen 100x as fast.
When I was mentoring junior devs, I would start by fully reviewing their code. If they had a ton of mistakes more than a few times, I would only review until the first mistake, and then reject it. Repeat, repeat, repeat, until they got the picture that I wasn't going to let mistakes through, and handing me a ton of mistakes was going to waste more of their time than mine.
I let the pain be their pain, instead of mine.
But good developers, I'd help them by doing a more thorough review and not wasting their time. Good developers were the ones that made an honest effort to follow the requirements to the letter and test their own work.
We further emphasized this by having a very simple coding test during the interview, and the only thing we cared about was whether they followed the requirements to the letter. There wasn't a lot left to the imagination, and the requirements were very clear. Anyone who missed them wasn't someone who would do well with us.
That very same test will help filter out a lot of AI-braindead candidates that don't check the AI's work as well.
Actually, I wish I still had the exact test so I could throw it against an AI and see what happens. I'm a little afraid that it would pass it too easily now. I'm not sure how I'd fix it to prevent them from just using AI.
Please write a manual on how to cleanup after AI rockstar managers who think they can code. Much needed right now as I slept only two hours since yesterday after solving a SEV-0 and having to wake up after a 2 hour nap, so I could be now cleaning up the fallout before business hours. I am not a AI-denier, I am actually thankful I have AI right now to multiply my force, but frankly, people STILL need to review that fu…
> Please write a manual on how to cleanup after AI rockstar managers who think they can code. Why are you allowing AI rockstar managers to (I assume) push without code review? Why are you cleaning up the fallout? It's not AI issue, it's people issue
My manager got the mandate she needs to start coding, she doesn't want that, no one in our team wants that, she's a great manager exactly where she is right now. Nonetheless, we are helping her to code to show something for the higher-ups so she can keep her job, we really don't want to lose one of our best managers because some C-level is anxious about AI...
Please write a manual on how to cleanup after AI rockstar managers who think they can code. Much needed right now as I slept only two hours since yesterday after solving a SEV-0 and having to wake up after a 2 hour nap, so I could be now cleaning up the fallout before business hours. I am not a AI-denier, I am actually thankful I have AI right now to multiply my force, but frankly, people STILL need to review that fu…
It’s actually not much different than a decade ago cleaning up somebody else’s giant Visual Basic or PHP spaghetti code that stuck on the wall
I kind of envy people who need to clean up after others. At least you're puzzling. My current job is genuinely just boring. It's tasks that are so simple, a junior could do it. But no, instead they needed a medior. I'm not saying I'm better than this, nor that no medior will pick it up. I just cannot push myself to care about the code this company makes. It's old, dusty and it serves no one of importance. These custo…
Nah. Now everyone can build single purpose, single use, throw away software.