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Re:AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest... by jeremyjh on Thursday August 21, 2025 @02:21PM (#44976245)
The trick is to not give a fuck. This works great in a lot of apps, which are useless to begin with. It may also be a reasonable strategy in an early-stage startup yet to achieve product-market fit, but your plan has to be to scrap it and rewrite it and we all know how that usually turns out.
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Re:AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest... by lbrito on Thursday August 21, 2025 @02:31PM (#44976367)
This is an excellent point. Sure in an ideal world we should care very much about every line of code committed, but in the real world pushing garbage might be a valid compromise given things like crunch, sales pitches due tomorrow etc.
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Re:AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest... by jeremyjh on Thursday August 21, 2025 @03:21PM (#44976918)
No, that's a much stronger statement. I'm not talking about ideals. I'm talking about running a business that is mature, growing and going to be around in five years. You could literally kill such a business running it on a pile of AI slop that becomes unmaintainable.
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