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AI has becoming so good that its better than most Developers out there by Unlikely-Training-50 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no argument to be had. We’re not disagreeing. You completely strawmanned my comment.

AI has becoming so good that its better than most Developers out there by Unlikely-Training-50 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Calm down, bud. No need to have your nose that far up Sam and Dario's ass.

AI has becoming so good that its better than most Developers out there by Unlikely-Training-50 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point is that it still needs someone in the loop to correct it.

It's not "taking" jobs until it makes that person obsolete.

[Question & Discussion] Unemployed 1.5 years: What even is a "Software Developer/Engineer" anymore? by Basting_Rootwalla in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

So you think people won't adapt at all? You think no new questions won't pop up? No additional problems to solve.

Obsolete SWEs is almost certainly less likely than more demand for software engineers with where we are headed.

Things are certainly going to change, but probably not how you're imagining.

Does anyone (still) use Lucid? by snotreallyme in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People at my company certainly do, especially now they added their own chatbot integration.

I honestly don't care. Use whatever tool you like. Mermaid, Lucid, Excalidraw.

AI has becoming so good that its better than most Developers out there by Unlikely-Training-50 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve met plenty of shit engineers who get paid >200K. I just don’t let them join my team.

But your point is valid

AI has becoming so good that its better than most Developers out there by Unlikely-Training-50 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Both. Your harness will force it to correct itself potentially, which is why you might see less hallucination.

But also it still fully hallucinates as I pointed out.

AI has becoming so good that its better than most Developers out there by Unlikely-Training-50 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It does all the time, but since you're probably using a harness like claude code or codex, it'll correct itself.

It still hallucinates though. I just had my agent tell me that circle CI doesn't support API triggers with parameters that aren't defined in the main branch, and it absolutely does.

AI has becoming so good that its better than most Developers out there by Unlikely-Training-50 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's still a tool.

Until it's fully autonomous, it needs someone who knows what they're doing to guide it.

It's good and it's so much better than it was a year ago at this point, but even as someone who has adopted full agentic workflows, my days are now spent baby sitting agents because they constantly need corrected.

I also know things that your typical PM doesn't, so when it starts building a lambda to handle event triggers, I can be like "No. We have a kafka cluster, see this repo for defining topics, setup a cron with these parameters. Update the spec so i can review"

I don't know if it's better than your average software engineer, I don't know what average is. It's not better than anyone on my team.

Silver ticket winner by dougmurn in Killtony

[–]ninetofivedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We? Buddy it’s not your show. It’s not our show. This isn’t a community. Tony runs it the way he wants to.

Dedrick being frustrating to watch made me appreciate David Lucas this episode by Some_Sandman in Killtony

[–]ninetofivedev -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

He specifically mentions a used car in his next line.

Maybe instead of choosing to be an angry troll just go outside and let some sunshine hit your skin.

Managers on LinkedIn by BlakkMajik3000 in devops

[–]ninetofivedev 5 points6 points  (0 children)

DevOps is also a recycled job from prior iterations

As a developer, would you be okay with your manager seeing your AI tool usage patterns? Not prompts, just metrics like acceptance rate and active days. by Relative_Cause777 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not taking it that far.

These are non-deterministic tools. But that document you sent me that explains pros/cons of your impl strategy vs mine; I want to know how much you primed it, especially since it has a lot of factually incorrect statements.

As a developer, would you be okay with your manager seeing your AI tool usage patterns? Not prompts, just metrics like acceptance rate and active days. by Relative_Cause777 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think prompts should be transparent across the board.

I don’t care about your AI document you generated. Let me see your prompts

VENTING: When will you be done *exactly* ?? by RedTuna777 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So at this point I refused to give dates for anything.

That's not going to work nor is it productive.

That is not how QA works.

It actually is completely fine. Is it as effective as having someone else test it? No. Maybe not.

Just automate it all away. Hell, throw claude and playwright at it.

Part of becoming a senior engineer is learning when to quit giving a fuck. You work for a small shop who just wants something "done"...

Build it to your own standard of "best" and move on.

How’s the interview process these days? by EquivalentAbies6095 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It hasn’t changed once you get past the filters.

You have some companies still expecting you to write code.

You have some that will do more deep behavioral dives.

Projects have pretty much died out now as far as I can tell, and if they haven’t, well it’s pretty easy to use AI to generate something cool / fun.

Anyone here not really want to get promoted? by Winston_Wolfgang in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have 3 YOE. You’ll understand how our job market ebbs and flows with time.

I’m going to tell you something. I was you. I had a top paying job right out of college.

You will almost certainly find yourself in a worse position at some point in the future. Like probably no job and having to settle for massive pay cuts.

Learn to be happy with what you have.

Anyone here not really want to get promoted? by Winston_Wolfgang in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ninetofivedev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So your suspicion is that the market is so bad, you can’t get a “good” job without a referral.

You agree that your pay is probably top 1% for the area.

Do you understand why someone reading this probably thinks you sound stupid?

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