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a really common opinion i'm seeing from my friends in the software industry is that AI takes away the fun / easy parts of the job, but it's not like your workload goes down as a result, so you spend an increasing fraction of your time doing the shittiest tasks

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social

Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.

bloodinthemachine.comWhy office workers are turning against AIWhether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.

Dave, admirer of squirrels

@quercusmax.bsky.social

4 Sept

Biggest bottleneck is still decisionmaking about how stuff should work, and then #2 is code review speed.

Colin McMillen

@mcmillen.dev

4 Sept

Yeah, and the thing I've heard from some is that it's too easy for people to send them slop CLs for review, so the review process takes a lot longer because you can no longer assume the person on the other end put an appropriate amount of effort into it.

Colin McMillen

@mcmillen.dev

(Obviously this depends on the nature if the project a lot; if most of your reviews are coming from the same dozen people who share an office floor, that's different than if your codebase gets contributions from hundreds of people in 10 different timezones)

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Dave, admirer of squirrels

@quercusmax.bsky.social

4 Sept

Yeah, I recently experienced how quick we can build stuff in an in person hackathon with 4 live reviewers in the room. Unfortunately my team is all across the continent so we're not so quick on a daily basis.