ask chatgpt how to maximize your income and minimize arduous work while employed at a large tech company. it would suggest this and similar behavior.
perhaps soon we’ll see new incentives and behaviors emerging in the market.
Haha, it is when you have a 24-hour turnaround deadline. This project was (and still is) a BFD at my company, and time is of the essence. My colleagues would not be impressed by my ability to tell a fun war story; they are impressed by my ability to ship and do it fast.
> Using GPT to fix the bug for me would only mean: ok bug is fixed… now I’m gonna pick up the next Jira ticket. So boring.
I wish I had the luxury of being bored right now. Be grateful for those moments. That next ticket is something I want and need to pick up. This is not a time for idle musings and learning for us; it's a time for hunting and killing.
I ask myself if foregoing the chance to learn under fire and outsourcing it to a corporate tool is extracting the right value from it. Yeah you get the task on hand done. Maybe means money comes in. Trumps everything right? But next time you'll depend on this remote API to hold your hands again. What if it costs 10x as much then, or is now proprietary and unavailable to you?
We're all giving up learning for short term convenience? Is that what makes good engineers?
- you learn a lot of stuff otherwise you wouldn’t have learned
- you have material to talk about in your daily standups
- your colleagues recognize your effort and once you fix it you get their admiration
Using GPT to fix the bug for me would only mean: ok bug is fixed… now I’m gonna pick up the next Jira ticket. So boring.