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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by vkou on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @02:58AM (#43629534)
Who are all these all these engineers who just take whatever garbage they are suggested, and who, without understanding it, submit it in a CL?

And was the code they were writing before they had an LLM any better?

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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by arkh on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @04:30AM (#43630044)
> Who are all these all these engineers who just take whatever garbage they are suggested, and who, without understanding it, submit it in a CL?

My guess would be engineers who are "forced" to use AI, already mailed management it would be an error and are interviewing for their next company. Malicious compliance: vibe code those new features and let maintainability and security be a problem for next employees / consultants.

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