This is like saying the automatic transmission means you don’t need to know how to drive.

Yes, the machine does some of the work for you. No, you don’t have to understand planetary gear sets to use it. But it’s helpful to understand its limitations — like you can’t push-start it the way you could a manual car.

But you still need to know how to drive.

Real world example: the QA team has gotten their hands on AI and are now generating test procedures from issue descriptions. The test procedures make no sense. None. But they dump this workslop on me and if I say it’s wrong they demand to know how. So I have to write their test procedures now if I want anything to get done.

AI isn’t magic. It just generates stuff. Maybe good, maybe completely wrong stuff. There’s a reason why engineers mock KLOC as a measure of productivity. A lesson middle and upper managers are determined to learn the hard way yet again.

Why not? Couldn’t make them any stupider.

Remember, it’s only genocide when Europeans do it.

This is sparkling colonialism.

No memory, no leak.

Is that normal?

Oh no how unfortunate.

And the “seismically inactive geology” that somehow always funnels into a local aquifer.

In the 1990s, the NRC had to “take repeated actions to address defective welds on dry casks that led to cracks and quality assurance problems; helium had leaked into some casks, increasing temperatures and causing accelerated fuel corrosion”.[11]

With the zeroing of the federal budget for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada in 2011, more nuclear waste began being stored in dry casks. Many of these casks are stored in coastal or lakeside regions where a salt air environment exists, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology posited that corrosion in these environments could occur in 30 years or less, while the NRC was studying whether the casks could be used for 100 years as some hoped.[12]

Impervious to absolutely anything, except a little helium, or slightly salty air.

“Indestructible”?

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Thanks for the laugh, pal.

It’s gambling. Pull the lever, maybe you get three sevens, maybe you don’t.

It’s intentional. The AI companies want to extort you to do things with your own code.

Code review is a process of verifying that code meets a defined set of requirements.

Imma stop you right there, chief. Maybe one of the ten orgs I’ve been in had some defined standard, and it was heavily-regulated safety critical firmware.

PRs are where the least useful people go to grind ideological axes. Give them the smallest amount of power, and they will abuse it.

Try to define some standards and they will throw sand in the gears. One, to keep grinding ideological axes. Two, if they can’t have move goalposts they become glorified linters and that’s no fun.

You don’t say.

We see the appeal to middle and upper management.

Oh no how unfortunate.

Won’t let me upload directly. Here’s a link: https://imgur.com/a/FwoVHO2

I saw the yakherds riding Honda motorcycles all over Gansu. Seems like a blast.

No, but it will gladly pretend to understand it. For a price.

Got room for one more at the ranch?

At least after hours of arguing with a bot and burning tons of money and energy you have a pile of code you can’t understand without paying a chatbot.