[darkwater]

I think it was just an example. The real meat behind the example is what someone said today and that I'm now stealing: AI helps with a faster tech debt generation. Having $anyone asking for $anything in a hurry it's probably the #1 cause of tech debt. If now with AI all the answers are going to be "yes, sure!" well, tech debt will go up.

[Espressosaurus]

That's a good way of putting it. Especially in inexperienced users' hands.

I'm working with a bunch of autonomy guys (think PHD algorithms people) and ChatGPT lets them write code. Which is good.

Except the code is hot garbage. It works for the thing they're trying to do, but it doesn't handle errors, it's not extendable, it's not maintainable, and they'll fight you when you tell them how to make it any of the above because they didn't write it and don't really understand how it works.

There's no management buy-in--startup, so velocity matters more than anything--so I've resorted to letting them have their working garbage patch and I just let them deal with the consequences. Frustrating, but quality doesn't matter sometimes.

[jcelerier]

the answer was "yes, sure" before AI too. the difference is whether you're going to do overtime staying up to 2AM trying to make things work.

[darkwater]

Not in my case. But overstaying, at least here in Europe, is not seen as a good thing, while using AI starts to be encouraged by CTOs and CEOs.

[jcelerier]

as someone from France this has really, really not been my experience when I think of how many times I had to pull on all-nighters for work because of $deadline.