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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Talk with PM went nowhere. Very nice guy, but was insistent on giving the reviewer the benefit of the doubt. I just wanna die.
Ugh, from me as well: sorry to hear that.
I can relate to how you feel about the AI stuff. I also work for GenAI-pilled upper management, and the forced introduction of github copilot is coming soon. It will make us all super extra productive! ...they say. Dreading it already. I won't use it at all, I've already made that clear to my superior. But my colleagues might use it, and then I will have to review the AI slop... uggghh...
Maybe a small silver lining to raise the mood here, recent article from Monday: Gartner sounds alarm on AI cost, data challenges
If even freaking Gartner is now saying "well, maybe AI is too expensive and not actually so useful"... then maybe the world of management will wisen up as well, soon, hopefully, maybe?
an idea I just had (which would need some work but talking hypothetical): wouldn't it be lovely if ~~IDEs~~ VS Code[0] automatically inserted "Copilot Used Here" start/end markers around all generated shit. could even make it a styleguide/editorconfig so it's universally set across projects[1]
[0] - because lol ofc it's mainly vscode rn [1] - and then when you find colleagues who lie about whether they're using it you wrap all their desk shit in foil
I like the idea. Or maybe marking such changes in the commit message... I might try to bring that up when the time comes.
in the current most-typical mode of engagement, commit messages are too disconnected from the actual contents. it requires someone who gives a shit to go looking
conversely, what I mean is something like "a hook that guarantees that the moment the plugin is engaged and output from it is scribed in source, metadata about that event is simultaneously co-written"
it's already generating a pile of other things, it may as well generate timestamps and callsig and callhash and shit too....
the number one problem with this, of course, is that it's going to be extremely unpopular with a Vocal Set Of People who rely on this shit to make themselves look good