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Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming by thesdev on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:47PM (#50157137)
Not everyone has the luxury of having that choice. Cough cough AI mandates.
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Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming by greenowl on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:51PM (#50157184)
Are they specifically mandating AI for writing code though? Just use your AI tokens for the other parts of the job.
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Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming by memjay on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:23PM (#50157580)
Yes they are. We just had a workshop where the managers previewed our “software factory”. A big pile of skills, hooks, CLAUDE.md files, an elaborate spec and test system based on many markdown files.

All features should now be created via this workflow. It’s basically a ticket going in, a few rounds of questions back and forth with the LLM, then waiting for an hour until it finishes.

Then having to read/review 2k lines of AI-generated code. It’s terrible.

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Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming by greenowl on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:51AM (#50166440)
Yeah that sounds awful. Sorry. I'd start looking for a new job.
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Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming by memjay on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:22PM (#50281076)
Not looking for a new job in this economy though.
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