This exactly. It is more important to move fast. Screw the edge cases. As long as it’s correct _most_ of the time, you can always fix anything that’s broken tomorrow.

Why on earth did the software engineering interviews were checking candidates’ ability to think about edge cases? Clearly management does not care.

It's called "eventual consistency".

And C10k was never about those 10.000 socket connections getting the right response, either!

Developers who aren't using it are already falling behind.

Remember, it's not that AI that will take your job, it's the developers who need an AI to tell them if a number is even that will take your job.

pro tip: play around with the temperature especially when using big numbers as input

Wow, amazing tip. This hack improved my workflow by 10x.

Only 9x for me. What am I doing wrong? Can you share your vscode colour scheme file?

What model were you using? You need to use gpt-3.14-tastesgreat-lessfilling, I've used it to write 130 side hustle projects this month with only prompting.

Vibe coding your way to greatness. Wish I could do that, but it seems too hard becoming a prompt engineer. Stringing together words? That's why we have AI!

Are there actually still Junior Developers out there? I thought no one is hiring Junior Developers.

Its actually the opposite of how people think.

We hire junior devs, but not senior, and dont replace our senior devs. So our developer base is moving towards being junior weighted with less senior. The reason being a junior dev is cheaper, complains less, is more capable now through utilising generative AI, works harder to impress knowing they arent in a safe position, and we can let them go more easily with less process and less reasons needed to be given.

you're so wrong. This only works if what you do is so simple that any junior develper can sufficiently do it well. Senior developers with AI is gonna destroy a bunch of junior developers with AI.

>You're so wrong, this only works if..

wrong? I'll gladly continue this 'wrong' approach if it continues to be as successful as it has over the last 6 months. Aswell as it being entertaining seeing the level of cope among 'senior' developers watching someone on 1/4th of their salary design systems better than they can

I recognize I’m not going to change your mind on this, but I’ll sure be interested to hear how all those systems are working in a year or two - although from your comments elsewhere, you run a consultancy, so I guess that’s not your problem, either.

Many people without experience ask this same question.

It isnt relevant. They arent just producing code and pushing it, saying it works. It undergoes the same extensive testing for stability and security as the solution written by anyone else goes through. If it passes that, then its as likely to have issues further down the line as the solution written solely by the senior dev would have.

> 1/4th of their salary

If they + AI are a replacement for senior devs, shouldn't they be paid accordingly?

That would defeat the purpose. The whole point is to reduce costs by getting a cheap junior dev and having them operate AI to produce the same or better result for far less

So the point is to use technological advancements only to increase company profit and not pass any on to the actual workers. If a junior costs 1/4 of a senior, they could easily paid more from the 3/4s saved (since they're also more valuable now), but I guess shareholder millions come first.

Of course. I'm running a business, not a welfare program

What a way to summarize the decades of apathy that led to the current state of wealth inequality.

Apathy? More like the fact that the majority of people are too lazy, not motivated enough, not willing to take risks, and go out and build something of their own that results in wealth, and prefer to sit safe as someones employee, complaining about 'wealth inequality'

It's interesting to watch you put zero value on work/effort/labor and huge value on risk taking (which is very different for people with different "safety nets").

Hey are you hiring? If you are shoot me an email, my address is in my profile. I love operating AI and being someone else's employee.

He's a troll account.

Worth a try

Do you plan on promoting them eventually or just replacing them once they realize they’re getting a bad deal?

Theyre getting paid and have a job. If they dont like that deal they can go find another one elsewhere.

But its going to get increasingly difficult to justify promoting them to higher salaries if generative AI continues as it is, as the bottom line is that there will be another junior dev out there that will do the role on less.

Did the juniors decide it was a better system or the seniors?

It is legitimately hard to tell if this is a parody account.

Thats because youre conditioned in your culture to want the nice lies that tell you other people care by a society that wraps everything in BS.

Foreigners may consider my culture brutal and unforgiving, but at least its honest from the outset

You laugh now, but our jobs are going to be toast in 10 years.

I thought self-driving would never happen, and now it's here.

Almost here. Elon said Full Self Driving would mean full self driving within a year! That means we are less than 12 months away from not needing to drove ourselves anymore.

I was talking about Waymo. It's real and it's spreading everywhere.

Give it another 10-20 years and your job will probably face the same fate.

15 years would be perfect to still reach retirement age. After that, good luck to whoever's left in the profession.

waymo was that company that still heavily relies on manual remote operator intervention, right?

Regardless, the car mostly driving itself while remote operators handle particularly tricky situations is a feat which will allow driver-not-in-vehicle taxis to take over. My understanding (which admittedly could be the victim of successful PR) is that the vast majority of the driving and even a majority of the trips are fully automated.

"particularly tricky situations" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here to describe situations every owner of a driving license is expected to handle routinely.

driver-not-in-vehicle is an interesting approach, but calling it "self-driving" is doing the mechanical turk without the reveal. Someone less charitable might assume intentional misrepresentation for the sake of winning an internet argument.