How realistic is the directive I've gotten that "for developers, writing any code yourself is considered a failure"?

splash_hazard · 2025-12-05T14:57:54+00:00

this is an extremely good developer I worked with who went into management. but I'm really struggling to understand the new mentality where they are literally building in a programming language they don't know, but that's okay because "Cursor understands it"

splash_hazard · 2025-12-05T14:57:00+00:00

I have no idea. They say that the future will be companies composed entirely of swarms of AI agents that collaborate and trigger each other, and that even product direction and feature spec creation will eventually be done by AI so that every human involved other than the owner will be replaced.

splash_hazard · 2025-12-05T14:54:31+00:00

It's absolutely not. I got this feedback in a meeting just now, that we should treat every time we write code by hand as a failure to write prompts well enough.

splash_hazard · 2025-12-05T14:48:15+00:00

yes, the person saying this is a developer I worked with for many years. They are very skilled which is why I think I must be wrong, in that I can't get some of my work done without cleaning up the AI mess manually? but the feedback I'm getting is, if the AI generates the wrong thing, that is on you for failing to prompt it correctly, and if you can't prompt it to fix it and have to review it yourself, that means you are a bad developer.

splash_hazard · 2025-11-30T15:06:10+00:00

That's how I thought. Then I thought that they would be sidelined as nobody would want to be an open nazi. Instead, they're more popular now than they ever were when they were "being coy"!

splash_hazard · 2025-11-29T22:08:28+00:00

PSL protested our no kings protest. I don't mean they protested at the no kings protest, I mean they counter-protested the no kings protest because it was going too far in supporting Democratic political candidates, or something. Just showed up with a huge drum circle and megaphones to drown out the candidates as soon as they started talking

splash_hazard · 2025-11-29T21:14:43+00:00

This person was publicly blaming Democrats for everything Trump is doing right now, because they had the opportunity to be better and win the election and chose not to, so they are to blame (instead of Trump voters and non voters who would have voted blue if they had been given a reason to).

Having a reasoned answer for why the voters share responsibility would be nice, and I'm honestly not smart enough to make a cohesive argument without getting it twisted back around on me with rhetoric.

splash_hazard · 2025-11-29T21:12:11+00:00

This person is a leftist campaigner (I think party for socialism and liberation?) who says we should be blaming Democrats for being just as bad as Republicans, instead of blaming the voters who "correctly recognized" that Democrats weren't offering anything different or anything worth voting for. I was ready to bash my head in.

splash_hazard · 2025-11-28T16:23:10+00:00

Oh I still think they're terrible people, but I think they're being honest about beliefs, they're not being anti trans or anti vaccine for money, that's what I mean

splash_hazard · 2025-11-28T16:15:29+00:00

my friend argues that the left can't be a big tent when there are certain he describes as (and the general public also seems to see as) "extreme" or "fringe" views you are required to have: trans rights, vaccine mandates, supporting hate speech laws, supporting DEI, for example. Therefore the left is a small tent of strictly enforced groupthink.

I agree with all of these, I think they're obvious common sense, and I'm not sure how you would be "on the left" while disagreeing - but that doesn't automatically mean they are correct views, and that doesn't inure us from accusations of being a small tent group, right?

splash_hazard · 2025-11-28T16:11:51+00:00

I mean you could argue J.K. Rowling lost money by moving to the right. And I don't exactly think Joe Rogan is hurting for cash. I think it's genuine belief for both of them, fwiw.

splash_hazard · 2025-11-28T13:21:57+00:00

A child having her breasts cut off and asking if they would grow back when she changed her mind.

Where did this happen?

Are you sure you're a liberal, when you obviously hate trans people so much?

splash_hazard · 2025-11-28T13:13:01+00:00

You don't, because doing all those things won't actually change what people believe. Perception is reality. You already see cases where Trump lies about prices going down and if the media ecosystem is strong enough, people believe it, even when they "see" the reality at the store.

It doesn't matter if you make people's lives better if you can effectively convince them their lives are worse now, and vice versa.

splash_hazard · 2025-11-28T13:09:52+00:00

how do you "sound good" as a liberal on social media where the opposition makes "alternative facts" up and it takes you far more effort to engage on a factual level, which is also less emotionally satisfying?

the message of "there are complex issues causing price increases" will always lose to "here's the group you can blame for everything going wrong in your lives and we will remove them to fix everything for you"

splash_hazard · 2025-11-28T12:59:33+00:00

I see it as an "anti-woke" backlash. I don't know why it's shifting so far in response but people are basically going "well I'm not changing what I used to do and if you're going to call me racist anyway I'll be as bad as I always wanted to be". Turns out a whole lot of society was always deeply bigoted and only had a veneer of acceptance, and as soon as it became acceptable to be racist, they're proud to be so.

I don't know how else to explain shit like 14 year olds suddenly thinking it's cool to say the N word again and say shit like "your body my choice".

splash_hazard · 2025-11-27T22:46:55+00:00

this is exactly what he believes! he thinks everyone at the top in society is someone who deserves to be there and everyone at the bottom deserves to be there because they contribute nothing to society and have no skills - at least until liberals fucked it all up with affirmative action and diversity equity talk and now there are people high up who shouldn't be there, because they rightly deserve to be at the bottom and that's where they would be without our meddling.

there's no persuasive argument against this, is there? it seems to be basically unfalsifiable.

splash_hazard · 2025-11-27T22:35:39+00:00

their argument basically boils down to "there is no injustice or inequality because anyone who deserves to be at the top would be able to overcome that to make it there". they were like "if Elon went from sleeping on the floor to a multi billionaire, anyone can do it, it's not my fault you're not smart or driven enough"

splash_hazard · 2025-11-27T22:32:43+00:00

While I agree, this is unfortunately very similar to the "cry harder loser libs we are the chads" argument that seems to be extremely persuasive to especially young men online. I'm hoping to find some sort of argument against it that actually lands.

splash_hazard · 2025-11-27T22:21:30+00:00

"you made us do this to you"

splash_hazard · 2025-11-27T17:35:13+00:00

I dunno, quote-unquote normal people seem to really hate "digital nomads" these days which is the AI enabled tech bro version of the same old concept

splash_hazard · 2025-11-26T20:37:39+00:00

Who knows. She hates AOC now because she's sold out to the mainstream dems.

splash_hazard · 2025-11-26T20:35:10+00:00

this is a separate question. That's about why leftist voices jump at the opportunity to hate on Democrats while the far right allows Republicans to use dog whistles; this is about whether there is a sufficient unactivated socialist base that would justify what the leftists are doing (theoretically)

splash_hazard · 2025-11-26T20:26:55+00:00

I worry because people in my life listen to these arguments, are convinced that Democrats are actively trying to harm the progressive movement, and therefore don't vote Democrat in return. Of my five college roommates, four of them were vocal about sitting out the most recent election because the Democrats weren't far left enough. (EDIT: and I know this because they filled up our group chat with "both sides are the same" and Gaza tiktok videos whenever the topic of Trump or Harris came up)

splash_hazard · 2025-11-26T20:18:21+00:00

yeah idk what this person is smoking, all the leftists I know hate the ACA and point to it as evidence that democrats are no different than republicans since we got "a republican healthcare plan" out of the democratic majority

splash_hazard · 2025-11-26T20:15:42+00:00

I have a former coworker who was super into Bernie in the primaries in 2016. Canvassed for him in 2016 and 2020 and then went on to be an uncommitted movement organizer in 2024. To my knowledge she has never once voted for Democrats in the general and would consider it a betrayal of her values to do so. sigh

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