> I wouldn't break into someone's house and tell them they painted their house an uninformed color.
but if you, an experienced professional painter, were hired to repaint somebody's house, and that person used bad paint (or something else entirely, like... i dunno, shellac, or white glue), your scope of work changes from "light prep and paint" to a much more involved job of undoing the previous work (or mistakes) and then getting to the original scope of work.
> If something sucks or won't scale, it will sort itself out in the market.
i truly don't mean this in a derogatory way but that sounds incredibly naive.
At the end of the day we are really just disagreeing on how seriously we should take AI-ification of software engineering.
I take a lighter stance that it’s mostly harmless and has a lot of educational positives. I guess you foresee a lot of potential harm.
I do appreciate people who are willing to be the canary in the coal mine. I just find that a lot of the criticism appears to be more gatekeeping than legitimate worries.
GuinansEyebrows|10 months ago
but if you, an experienced professional painter, were hired to repaint somebody's house, and that person used bad paint (or something else entirely, like... i dunno, shellac, or white glue), your scope of work changes from "light prep and paint" to a much more involved job of undoing the previous work (or mistakes) and then getting to the original scope of work.
> If something sucks or won't scale, it will sort itself out in the market.
i truly don't mean this in a derogatory way but that sounds incredibly naive.
daemonk|10 months ago
At the end of the day we are really just disagreeing on how seriously we should take AI-ification of software engineering.
I take a lighter stance that it’s mostly harmless and has a lot of educational positives. I guess you foresee a lot of potential harm.
I do appreciate people who are willing to be the canary in the coal mine. I just find that a lot of the criticism appears to be more gatekeeping than legitimate worries.