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 tried using copilot for production code for the first time, I had an excel spreadsheet with a few inputs and a few dozen of cells with formulas based on those inputs that I needed as a python script
The first version used some external library to read the spreadsheet and then just query the values from the cells with formulas
I spesified that I needed those calculations as code, copilot told me that it just needed the coordinates of the cells (those were in the first prompt), I gave it the coordinates again and it said that it was missing the spreadsheet (also in the first prompt)
I'm not worried about my job (at least not because of AI, testing is the second on the chopping block right after security)