[bbqfog]

People were saying this about coding bootcamps just a little while ago! "All of these bootcamp coders don't really know what they're doing and us seniors will have to clean up after them". Same with outsourcing before that. Most people (seniors included) suck at coding. AI is already better than all but the the very best. It will continue to improve.

[biglost]

I'm tired and bored yo remove eval from codecamp and ai agent code. Now every fucking sprint has a few jira shit cards with titles like "fix the bug introduced by ai, fix performance issue from bootcampers. This is not what i became a code monkey for. Get me out of programming!!! This current time driven development mixed with fix the above shit Is making me crazy

[jaynetics]

What did you become a code monkey for?

[bcrosby95]

Yes, I was told in 2001 that I was never going to make a dime programming due to a combination of the dotcom crash and all the huge tech companies focusing on outsourcing.

I'm not sure how bringing up outsourcing helps what you're saying, because tech salaries went ballistic shortly after outsourcing became popular.

[bbqfog]

My point is people keep saying the same thing throughout different eras and the truth is the quality of code has always been low. If anything, ai is going to greatly improve it.

[rediscovery]

So there is a clear pattern but "this time is different"?

Funny how that was also said at those times.

[rediscovery]

Well have developer salaries grown over this period when outsourcing and bootcamps became prevalent?