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Buzz Andersen
@andersen.buzz

I have a lot to say about this now that AI has become an important part of my life as a software engineer…

ceej@ceej.online

there’s an uncomfortable nuance probably worth diving into about the ethics of using generative AI to ship code versus generate art assets versus clone a person’s voice versus push slop to the algorithms. I truly don’t know where the line is. it’s frustrating

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Buzz Andersen
@andersen.buzz

For starters, I think one thing people don’t appreciate is just how much of an engineer’s day used to be spent Googling errors, reading vague docs, interpreting sample code, combing through Stack Overflow threads, etc. in search of unnecessarily arcane info.

Buzz Andersen
@andersen.buzz

LLMs have mostly eliminated that part of my job, and I neither miss it nor feel that my integrity is compromised by not having to deal with it. I waste far less time cobbling together annoying hacks because I didn’t realize a better solution was available, and I’m constantly learning new stuff.