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by miyuru 387 days ago
>can we pls ban these coders from the industry

This is the main problem with AI, we can no longer distinguish bad coders/managers because they use AI heavily and which can say knowledgeable things at times while having no idea on what they are doing.

I now say things that will not make sense to a good coders (like saying the steps out of order), to find out such people.

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Eventually you will find the imposters (I have impostor syndrome, gives it a whole new spin), because AI does not replace your knowledge of the underlying concepts.

It just takes time at times.

> ...and which can say knowledgeable things at times while having no idea on what they are doing

This has been a thing forever, before AI. Lots of "programmers" at BigCorp have hacked the system and they know how to say the right words relevant to BigCorp's tech stack. Knowing how to actually program is entirely optional. (You can just copy-paste boilerplate from BigCorp's monorepo, writing boilerplate will be your day job anyways.)

yea for sure they hacked the system for promotions but they weren't checking in AI slop for rest of us to deal with.
They were checking in buggy spaghetti code though.