In my last job, my boss used more and more AI. As a senior dev, I was very used to his coding patterns. I knew the code that he wrote and could generally follow what he made. The more he used AI? The less understandable, confusing and buggy the code became.
Eventually, the CEO of the company abused the “gains” of the AI “productivity” to push for more features with tighter deadlines. This meant the technical debt kept growing, and I got assigned to fixing the messes the AI was shitting all over the code base with.
In the end? We had several critical security vulnerabilities and a code base that even I couldn’t understand. It was dogshit. AI will only ever be used to “increase productivity” and profit while ignoring the chilling effects: lower quality code, buggy software and dogshit working conditions.
Enduring 3 months of this severely burnt me out, I had to quit. The rabid profit incentive needs to go to fucking hell. God I despise of tech bros.
Not surprised.
In my last job, my boss used more and more AI. As a senior dev, I was very used to his coding patterns. I knew the code that he wrote and could generally follow what he made. The more he used AI? The less understandable, confusing and buggy the code became.
Eventually, the CEO of the company abused the “gains” of the AI “productivity” to push for more features with tighter deadlines. This meant the technical debt kept growing, and I got assigned to fixing the messes the AI was shitting all over the code base with.
In the end? We had several critical security vulnerabilities and a code base that even I couldn’t understand. It was dogshit. AI will only ever be used to “increase productivity” and profit while ignoring the chilling effects: lower quality code, buggy software and dogshit working conditions.
Enduring 3 months of this severely burnt me out, I had to quit. The rabid profit incentive needs to go to fucking hell. God I despise of tech bros.