Basically what happened with Claude Opus 4.8

Sure, that’s why Google made an exclusivity deal with wikipedia instead of reddit to train their ai for any organic user level reviews/discussions on anything.

Appreciate the insights. In all my years as a programmer, I was never the tdd kind of guy, and looks like it has now come to bite me in the ass. I need to learn how to write tests and validate/write my own tests to the code. I’m still pretty new to all this, so I’m yet to be in a position to face the long term consequences

Not stopping coding altogether, but if I use AI the right way, then I can keep up my velocity while also taking time for manual programming projects alongside.

Good for you. Yeah skill atrophy is a real concern, and I’m afraid no matter how much I try to avoid it, there’s a real and significant chance of that happening. I could look at it as similar to forgetting the syntaxes because I can look them up, but I think it’s a lot more serious than that.

That would work if there is such a thing as justice in this world. The reality is that companies don’t give a shit, and you’ll be jobless clutching to your ideals. My compromise is that ok I’ll use AI and deliver stuff for you, but I’ll only do it in a way that benefits me as well. I won’t lose my identity as a python developer to use your ai.

Glad to know there is somebody else sharing my feelings on this. Even with ai critical comments, there’s still some great comments here. I cross posted this to experienced_devs and there a bunch of useful comments there as well.

I have 18 years of programming experience, this is not about not knowing how to code. It’s about using a new technology effectively without losing your identity as a senior programmer. May be you have the ultimate say in your company, and can stave off agentic coding until the bubble bursts, but I don’t have that luxury. Agentic coding has fucked up all output velocity expectations, so even if you don’t use them, you’re still expected to output at the new velocity, which would just about kill mj love for programming.

At least it’s better than just asking the agent to build something without any control over it, which is what a lot of junior devs are doing these days.

How is open spec for Greenfield apps? I’ve heard it’s best suited for existing code. I’ll try the ‘in the future’ heads up, thanks

It is ‘leava all coding to agents’, but at least it’s ‘leave most of the design control to me’. I was, and still am, and old style programmer yelling at AI to get off my lawn, but like any new technology, I’m trying to do my best to learn and make best use of it so that I grow as a developer even though it is meant to ‘save money for the company’. It’s here whether I like it or not, so I’making sure I don’t lose my job because of it, while still being employable when it inevitably crashes to the ground.

That’s an interesting question. Either there isn’t much tacit knowledge in the company that they can’t put in onboarding documentation, or the company is focusing on short term gains at the cost of long term stability

What is the logical progression to this kind of a thing. Is there going to be a turning point or is bottom a long long way to go?

It’s like a CEO of a company making bank at the expense of the company future.

Is the genie looksmaxxing??

The whole Back to Black is sad, but there is a 2 second guitar riff that makes it extra sad for me, so I do this even if it did hit me the way I expected it to.

Could somebody help? I’m running arch with plasma, and I’m unable to find this app.

AI hallucination with time, and randomly hallucinated alarms should be fun.

The interviewer should have pushed back and asked what made it premium.

We’re all black rangers on this blessed day