I feel like I just need somewhere to run right now and I don't have anywhere really. I've started this new job about a month ago and the whole schtick was that we'd be rewriting this old app to meet a tight deadline and immediately putting it on a code freeze to make something better to replace it.
fine, I get it, tight deadlines and lots to do of course you going to tempted to use AI. when youre architecting a complex application on top of APIs that you've not worked with before you're going to miss stuff anyway. But honestly, out of the four of us, two of the mobile devs are some of the biggest pig shits I've ever had to work with. fundamentally having to explain that this guy can't just merge his changes into the main branch, or not to leave file spanning comments spat out by Gemini to explain the code that he's not even bothered to read, A shit that goes beyond being in a rush to not being competent to do the job you've been given.
again, fine, I can get around some of this with the promise of slowing down and picking up The new projects and enforcing some higher quality standards which everyone supposedly wishes for. fine.
nope. whilst me and the other competent dev are trying to sort out the slop that has been dumped on the app in question over the last month, the deadline has passed us (something which I said was going to happen but was ignored), and the two vibe coders have complained that they "don't have any work to do" And on now architecting the next fucking project with senior team members whilst I'm getting grilled over "why is XYZ taking so long?" because the fucking vibe code is vibe coded that you fucking hacks and you rewarded them with this new project.
it's disheartening, because I said all of this upfront, but because I wasn't the first person in the team out of the gate my opinions are basically worth as much as this rant will (understandably) be worth to most of you: pittance.
I'm not the best programmer on earth, not even the most experienced, but it does my fucking head in to have imposter syndrome every time I log into work every morning because there are two sodding imposters in front of me getting the credit!!! absolute dog shit.
I don't know. round time. free Palestine and free Iran and death 2 America xxx
I said this shit when automatic garbage collection and high level languages became the norm in business applications. Companies don't give a shit about quality if they can throw more money and processing power at the problem.
Instead of returning to writing actual code, companies will build trillion dollar workflows around making Claude code kinda workable long term.
It has failed, they now just using more silicon rather than minification. Hardware has stopped getting cheaper even before it got really expensive.
They think that they can just throw more capital at the problem and get more code. That would really only make sense if the "AI" could actually think.
Google invested big money trying to replace TCP with UDP for Chrome at one point. UDP is quicker but runs of the risk of losing data permanently since it doesn't monitor the connection. Google's solution? Build a multi billion dollar system to keep track of all dropped packets so it was just as reliable as TCP. To save milliseconds a packet, they were willing to build a system that big. Tech companies will do the same with LLM code. Test the code against various use cases until it kinda works then ship it out. It doesn't matter if the code sucks shit and breaks every month, they'll automate the triage process with SRE and it won't matter.
This is the future, shit code written on the cloud with AI monitoring the breaks and automatically fixing it when it crashes. This is the junkfoodification of code. Comp Sci people will be relegated to production support to fix mistakes and write the very few things companies don't want to risk with AI.