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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Sending a Correction is literally so much easier!

    To edit message you probably have to long press on it, select Edit, then select the part of text to edit (which is famously easy on mobile /s) then erase and rewrite. There’s no point putting this much effort into a chat message! There’s a reason people don’t capitalise or use punctuation in those.

    Sorry I’m with the millennial on this one (being a millennial and a tech savvy person myself).





  • Of course the code it generates is pretty shit and full of comments…but it works.

    If it’s shit but it works, it’s still shit. You are building technical debt that will eventually have to be paid when you get more customers, and current codebase starts surfacing bugs, security and performance issues.

    Before you say it, yes, our codebase is shit, and was shit. We have practically no devops, no real team structure, and something is always on fire, though I’m under the impression that this isn’t very uncommon nowadays…

    Sounds like your team doesn’t have a strong technical leadership, or they’re prioritizing expansion rather than stability. Maybe you’re working for a startup and have yet to turn profit? Or your clients don’t care about quality and reliability.

    At only 3 years experience you are still learning, and it’s telling that you can already recognize AI slop code. I feel sorry for you and hope you cna find more fulfilling work that will let you grow, but I dont’t know what the job market is like right now. I believe that if all you do is interface with AI all day, your job itself can be replaced with AI, so the experience you’re getting now may be of very little value as a software engineer. But who knows, AI is a real disruptor, and being able to review and scriutinize AI code can be a skill in itself.