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Re: AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

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Post by finaard » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:58 AM UTC

sixeyes wrote: post #74

orwin wrote: post #48

I now started to us AI to help review my juniors PRs, because I couldn't keep up with the amount of code they ship. It started poorly, but now I have my method: I first read the code and flag the lines I'm not sure about, then ask any frontier model (I like Claude here for analysis, even if I don't use it for the rest) to explain the PR and to put effort on the parts I flagged (basically explain in detail the code, n…

>I tell them to try to find what part of the code doesn't work before generating the fix this makes me kinda sad. they don't do this on their own? are they not even a little curious

One of my customers now added a policy that junior developers may use AI assistance, but are expected to write code by hand. Only proven developers can use AI to generate code, and are then expected to understand the generated code, and take ownership.

Re: AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:11 AM UTC

SwtCyber wrote: post #164

Gigachad wrote: post #8

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At least once a week I have to drop what I'm doing and race in to stop the non dev manager from merging a fully vibe coded patch which will blow up production. Claude Code has made this guy a negative 10x developer.

Just let him take down prod on a friday night once and leave him to deal with the PagerDuty alerts solo. Cures the urge to vibe-code infrastructure real fast

People like that are usually pretty good at deflecting onto other people. Likely you will end up being blamed in some way.

Re: AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too

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Post by wolvoleo » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 9:19 AM UTC

Quothling wrote: post #106

reconnecting wrote: post #103

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> Quothling 6 months ago [1] I work in a NIS2 regulated sector and I'm not sure we can ever let any AI agent run in anything we do. > We're in the European economic area and are completely NIS2 compliant and we use LLM's to aid in our software development for high risk systems. Please pick one. Either way this is a nightmare level of threat to sovereignty. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063153

I don't think they are opposite. We still don't let AI run anything we do. That being said, things have changed. 4 months ago I wouldn't touch the M365 Copilot thing if you paid me to, now it's basically the only AI I use professionally. Cowork changed the way we work, and I've previously spoken about how I think Microsoft sort of won the AI enterprise "war" by selling the tools and not the mode. If you'd asked me a…

Yes cowork is the first part of copilot 365 that's actually useful, to me too. It is however paid separately per token which means you need the expensive 30$ subscription and pay tokens on top of that.

If you just get cowork directly through claude you do get generous usage within their 20$ subscription.

I have to use it through Microsoft too because of their lobbying our company but I don't think they won any war. They're just reselling other people's stuff. The integration with office is alright but I don't really rely on that. In my personal life I avoid them.