[Malcolmlisk]

> These incentive structures now give tools for mediocre bullshitters to bullshit their way through and indirectly promote proliferation of these tools.

This scares me a lot. I'm a software consultant and I see my software and solutions being appropriated by bullshitters from inside the company. I don't know what to expect from the future anymore.

[lipowitz]

I've seen this cycle play out quite a few times long before LLMs. What scares me this time is the wide ranging possible consequences of the automatic assistant in terms of how far they can lead us down the garden path and how hard people are pushed to become BSers.

[butlike]

The advent of LLMs is kind of brilliant, because now instead of the chain-of-responsibility landing on some lowly engineer who might get fired, it can be brickwalled into some LLM. Good guy LLM doesn't care who's pointing their finger at it. Good guy LLM doesn't have their job on the line.

[cogman10]

Let me just provide a bit of hope.

I'm not a huge fan of AI stuff, but the output quality is (usually) above that of what BSers were putting out.

While I still need to double check my BS team members, the problems with the code they are pushing is lower than what it was pre-AI everywhere. To me, that's a win.

I guess what I'm saying is I'd rather have mediocre AI code written than the low quality code I say before LLMs became as popular as they are.

[Cthulhu_]

This is kind of par for the course for consultants tbh. Make sure to keep, log and publish your solutions on your own CV for future contracts. Or if you like the company, apply to work there yourself.

[butlike]

Don't worry about it, it's always been the way.

Now, watch this drive!