Over the last year I have seen an astonishing spike in poor-quality output within multiple employers. The problem with AI coding, ticket filing, etc is that you must review it afterward, but review would take nearly as long as just doing it yourself. The 10x productivity gain becomes 1.05x. The adopted solution to this, to meet internal targets, is to accept reduced quality. Flood the ticketing system with bogus repo…
Insightful point, but we should also consider we are in a very transitory period where were are adjusting every level of these tools (how verbose? How sycophantic? What should it ignore, which details matter, etc.) And more importantly, we as users are becoming attuned to reading and gaining understanding with AI. When everyone first uses AI they are swayed by its intelligent sounding sentence construction. It took t…
Invalid excuse, in my mind. This isn't a matter of isolated mistakes. Mistakes are understandable, systemic failure is unacceptable.