Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S...
by globular-toast on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:18AM
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Good developers are suffering from two things right now: pressure to "deliver" using the tools the same way as bad developers (ie. not thinking or understanding what they're doing), and depression caused by seeing their craft reduced to the skill level of a 6 year old. It's quite possible your colleague just doesn't give a crap about software any more.
Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S...
by grim_io on Saturday November 14, 2026 @05:43AM
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Maybe he phoned it in for that one PR. AI makes it easier to get a barely-pass without giving a fuck.
Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S...
by duskdozer on Saturday November 14, 2026 @09:04AM
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LLMs can speed up top-down thinkers, especially those who didn't later drill down to understand the details. Bottom-up thinkers are hindered because the LLM use takes away the info that actually helped them understand and solve problems. This is one source of the discrepancy of positive opinions and perceived productivity boost between some devs and especially between managerial types and devs.
Was this a developer who has been forced or pressured to use LLMs?
I know that should that time come for me, I'm not going to burn myself out wrestling to make something good.
I recently reviewed a large PR from a decent developer. I wrote some of the requirements after meeting with stake holders and did my own investigation on potential solutions.
The PR was full of bugs, missed half the requirements and the code that was there wasn’t even fully tested.
This person has successfully delivered complex things before. So what the hell? And this is not the first time I’ve thought their usage of agents and conclusions from ai assisted explorations were not right or could be better.
There’s still some weird human element. Though I’m noticing that responses are getting better with less “prompt engineering” so maybe this will all be gone soon.