"Checking out a parallel copy of our Go repository and telling the AI to rewrite the whole thing in Zig while I work on something else just so I can keep my job. I hate this shit so much. My job has usage tracking and quotas. I don’t use it for actual work, I just spin it up and disregard the output.
– An actual software engineer"
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/
Mike Taylor 🦕
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