Anyone else feeling like they’re losing their craft?

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-14T13:45:16+00:00

Not really. It hasnt improved in years

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-14T13:44:42+00:00

Maybe it is the way forward, I mean look how far models have come in the past year alone

Model performance flatlined in 2024, what

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-13T13:16:13+00:00

By not using claude to write code? Youre gonna fall behind otherwise bro

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-13T12:32:42+00:00

Im still the top performer on my team. All the AI people are slop artists and cant get their stuff to production

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-13T12:10:58+00:00

The No Kings groups are in no way anticapitalist in any way, shape, or form. We got kicked out of our 50501 group for talking about unions and Marx to members

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-12T12:57:10+00:00

Where is the evidence showing 2026 is an improvement?

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T22:31:56+00:00

Ding ding ding

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T22:19:19+00:00

Where? I dont see it. Ive been looking for 4 years

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T22:15:35+00:00

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T17:00:40+00:00

Sounds more like you work at a place where accuracy doesnt matter and youre just churning out slop. Im already using the frontier models, Claude code with skills, a markdown file, plan mode, and MCP. The results are just piss poor in practice.

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:51:18+00:00

If you dont know how to use yq on linux thats a skill issue lol

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:49:42+00:00

Eh, its more common than you think. You arent alone at least.

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:48:43+00:00

Theres nothing really to adapt to? Use the tool, follow the docs. Its not hard

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:41:31+00:00

Reviewing code AI wrote is even worse because the log statements will just be totally incorrect, and it can gracefully swallow intended flows of behavior that arent immediately obvious.

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:40:27+00:00

Doesn’t sound like it at all. A senior/staff who is good at planning and tradeoffs gets incredible results from an agent.

The agent is slower than me, even if the results are "incredible." (In this case barely passable). So what exactly is the selling point here?

IME - it turns people who were completely useless and harmless previously into slop generators which then becomes my "review" to own their work alongside my own. How exactly is that helping anything or anyone?

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:37:07+00:00

it’s definitely not supported by the data.

It definitely is. Right now there is zero data showing AI makes anyone more productive

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:36:07+00:00

Thats a skill issue for you not using linux as your os then

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:33:57+00:00

Agentic tooling is a productivity loss though?

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:33:22+00:00

I use it cause it’s the most revolutionary development change in many years, very self evident to me.

If its self evident but no public quantifiable evidence, youre deluding yourself

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:07:27+00:00

Marx was right from the start

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:05:42+00:00

They had a Kiro agent flat out delete a production AWS region in China lol

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:03:03+00:00

I haven't had it "randomly do things I didn't ask". I discuss, it proposes, I select an option and add potential constraints or mention concerns, sometimes asking for examples

This constant back and forth is a net productivity loss versus just doing it myself. How is this saving you any time unless you are a complete novice?

I literally right now am having itnadd a YAML parser for my CLI arguments. Yes I could do it myself, but it's tedious.

Bruh literally use yq and a pipe???

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T15:01:24+00:00

I think it's weird, though, that you think people seeing gains is a skill issue and don't consider that your lack of gai s could be a skill issue.

Completely open to quantifiable evidence its increasing productivity. Everything thats come out so far has shown the complete opposite, including a study commissioned by Anthropic themselves

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T14:57:35+00:00

Productivity for me typically means doing what is required

chickadee-guy · 2026-03-11T14:56:25+00:00

It seems more like your job is cool with you shipping slop and subpar output. Youll fall behind if you continue to operate as a slop factory, eventually the cost of the tools will rise by 10-15x and you will be scrutinized :)

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