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Going to be a bit crude here but the disconnect between management and ground-level folks when it comes to the conversation about (effective) use of GenAI might vanish if the latter were allowed to call out the former for being stupid fucks by actually calling them "stupid fucks". Might help a bit.

In my (limited) experience, ever since GenAI coding tools have become mainstream the conversation about long-term maintenance has gone right out of the window and it's all become a discussion about generating the right solution or prompting the model right or figuring out the right context...

"code is just a means to an end" yes "write code but be prepared to throw it away" very true "we now have tools that write code faster than you can comprehend (or read), said tools have more memory than you but less than they need for whole tasks — we think this'll make you faster" wait what?

I mean, I'm not trying to be an ass here for the fun of it. (What fun?) It's just that everyone who seems to proselytize GenAI tools in earnestness (earnestness as in only preaching what they practice) is in some weird little clique where they don't work in the sort of field most programmers do.

Anyone from a third world country who's done some basic reading in high school knows that statements like "90% of code will be written by AI in a few years" was wished upon a shriveled monkey's paw — I don't understand why so many programmers with online clout don't seem to think that way