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my team is anti-AI. my code review requests are ignored, or are treated more strictly than others. it feels coordinated - i will have to push back the launch date of my project as a result.

another teammate added a length check to an input field, and his request was merged near instantly, even though it had zero unit testing. this team is incredibly cooked in the long term, i just need to ensure that i survive the short term somehow.


I would start looking for a job at an AI-leaning firm.

" this team is incredibly cooked in the long term" they're not actually.

People like you are making sunk expenditures whilst the models are evolving... they can just wait until the models get to 'steady-state' to figure out the optimal workflow. They will have lost out on far less.


it sounds like you might have wasted your team's time previously and now they don't trust the code you put up with a PR. Maybe you can do something to improve your relationship with them?

As a sidenote, I highly doubt they are cooked longterm. Using AI is not exactly skilled labor. If they want or need I'm sure they could learn patterns/workflows in like an afternoon. As things go on it will only get easier to use.


Exactly. I find it hilarious that the people down-voted my comment.

Like yeah sorry... not everyone has to be a risk-taker. Many people like to observe and await to see what new techniques emerge that can be exploited.


> another teammate added a length check to an input field, and his request was merged near instantly, even though it had zero unit testing

That sounds extremely reasonable though?


Code that does not take a pre-existent unit test from failing to passing is by definition broken.

No its not.

that is not what "by definition" means

i take it you’re meaning i’m the “treat every gun as if it’s loaded” sense and not actually

games are global - NFL is solely american.

They do show the Super Bowl internationally however. I had a client in Brisbane who talked to me about it, as he had been watching it. The international audiences don't have to be fans of American football to take an interest in it for social reasons (the same way people watch sports they don't care about during the Olympics)

OK, but how many markets are Games Awards actively televised in? I believe they have been watched more on YouTube, when I hear watched more than NFL in context of TV discussion I don't think YouTube is the distribution channel, however I followed the wikipedia link and it says "streams" which OK, not how I thought it was being ranked.

If we are ranking on streams however, does this take into account streams of parts of each media? For example streams of Bad Bunny's halftime show, streams of important plays, versus streams of individual awards being presented?

I don't actually care either way, much, since I don't like American football, don't generally like team sports, and don't spend time gaming, but somehow I think the comparison between the two in online streams throws the metrics off.


> Or, do you tell it the basic functionality you want, test it out, then add feature after feature that you want, sometimes dropping them and sometimes adding new ones that you thought of as your worked

the problem with this is long term maintainability. it works - and the engineer understands how it works - but a) the AI does not prioritize cleanup/organization/naming, and b) there's a blind spot/boiling frog type of phenomenon that can prevent the engineer from spotting the growing problem. the codebase becomes recognizable only to them. the engineer sees all features working, all bugs fixed, 90% test coverage, and submits it for a PR.

the engineer tasked with reviewing the PR will treat it as slop.


> How's that not criminal

Well, a) it's a hobby, and b) this is still a free country/free society.


I could see the comparison to hobbies which pollute the environment, but in general people do tend to vote for reducing freedom where it harms others

If I were tasked with stripping this country/world of all remaining freedom, I'd surely let bullshit like this proliferate in ordo ab chao mode, where the exact line between ordo and chao is only known to me and my henchmen, and just wait till defeated enjoyers of miserable remnants of said freedom crouch begging me to rob them of that chaos-inducing freedom.

at the top there's Neil Pert, then a huge gap, then anyone else.

And then, if we grant that Peart is the best of the best, the 100 names that would follow in any sane list, Lars is no where to be seen. I doubt he'd crack the top 250.

i think theres a paradox here. intelligence needs a judge - if nothing verifies that the optimal outcome was chosen, it's too easy for the intelligence to fall into biased decisions


its turtle bots all the way down


silly AWS, google already went through this infinite loop of bot support. learn from their mistakes.


> I doubt we will see most of these impacts for 10 to 20 years

Have you been to Seattle lately?


I was in Seattle around 8 years ago. If I go tomorrow, will I notice any real difference?


The number of unsheltered homeless people has doubled in that time.


I truly believe the goal is to bring blue cities back to the 70s through 90s. Dangerous, gritty, dilapidated, horrible schools, corrupt government. But it will be cheap to rent and artsy 20 year olds / older homosexuals without children will enjoy it


i used to lose hours each day to typos, linting issues, bracket-instead-of-curly-bracket, 'was it the first parameter or the second parameter', looking up accumulator/anonymous function callback syntax AGAIN...

idk what ya'll are doing with AI, and i dont really care. i can finally - fiiinally - stay focused on the problem im trying to solve for more than 5 minutes.


idk what you’re doing but proper IDE was doing that for me for past 15 years or more.

Like I don’t remember syntax or linting or typos being a problem since I was in high school doing Turbo Pascal or Visual Basic.


emacs-nox for 8 years :-)


With all due respect, but if you actually wasted hours (multiple) each (!) day on those issues, then yeah, I can fully believe that AI assisted coding 10 or even 100x'd you.


I uncharitably snarked that AI lets the 0.05X programmers become 0.2X ones, but reading this stuff makes me feel like I was too charitable.

I've never had problems with any of those things after I learned what a code editor was.


Yep, it may be an issue in notepad, which does not have helper like syntax highlighting, auto indent, and line numbers. But I started with IDLE which has all those things. So my next editor was notepad++ and codeblock.


emacs + adhd. the squiggly lines and autocomplete stuff were more distracting than linter/compile errors. rock and a hard place, and ai solved it.


How does AI help you here? Do you pass it a file and tell it to "fix syntax errors, no mistakes!" ??


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