Are Devs Becoming Lazy? The Rise of AI and the Decline of Care
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Are Devs Becoming Lazy? The Rise of AI and the Decline of Care
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#2sed -i 's/Copilot/outdated Stack Overflow answers and random github repos/g'
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#4> Always Review AI-Suggested Code
So really the problem is a lack of code review... but I seem to recall that AI is decent at code review too. It won't spot state machine bugs, but SQL injections, no problem.
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#5> Coding used to be about craftsmanship, precision, and knowing your tools inside and out.
Coding, just like woodworking, is about creating products and solutions. Craftsmanship, precision, and knowing your tools is possibly how you make better software more elegant, easier to maintain, etc.
Not everyone needs a rocking chair that can hold up for 40 years, sometimes an upside down bucket works just fine.
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#6The quality control practices are not up to the devs, they're up to management. Management wants to cut corners or perform incomplete, automated tests rather than human driven qa. It's about cutting costs by cutting corners
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#7> In the old days, developers had to really know their stuff. Coding wasn’t just a checklist—it was a craft, and every line was written with care.
There's a name for seeing the past through rose-colored glasses, isn't there?
"In the old days" developers had various degrees of skill and care, as they do "in the new days".
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#8Capitalism incentivizes the lowest cost implementation to maximize margin. This isn't surprising through that lens.
Folks,if you're smart, keep you AI usage secret and use it to reclaim time for yourself by completing your objectives early. The only reward for a job well done is more work.
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#9> In the old days, developers had to really know their stuff. Coding wasn’t just a checklist—it was a craft, and every line was written with care.
you've lost me here.
Caring and attention to quality have always been in short supply. Or supply _and_ demand when I think of some of the startups I've worked for.
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#10I would rather have lazy devs that actually ship shit to production than slow devs that drag what I could get done in 1 day out for entire sprints because they only communicate with each other for 30min tops per-day to unblock each other.
That this comes at the cost of "understanding" needs supporting evidence. Most devs I know only know 1 or 2 programming languages and their own special silo corner of the tech stack.
You're not paid to be not lazy or to learn in the most fulfilling way possible. You're paid to ship software that works.