[godelski]

I'm not sure this really matters at this point. It's like filming yourself giving food to the homeless. Is it better if you didn't? Yeah, probably. But at the end of the day does that person have food when otherwise they wouldn't? Also yeah.

I'd rather take a step in the right direction than none at all. If the management can be convinced that there's more money to be made this way then that gives us engineers more power to convince them to solve other such problems. If they care about quality then that gives us back negotiating power. You don't outsource to a third world software mill or AI when your concern is quality. But you do when you were trying to sell the cheapest piece of shit that people will still buy. So yeah, I'm okay with this

[OutOfHere]

You can be okay with it, but it's not going to solve the problem. Management will fix the issue, then soon revert to enshittification and exploitation, so your next major issue will stay unfixed. In the best case, your software will become an annual subscription where you've to keep paying an obscene amount for no new features at all. Overall, it would be a step in the right direction, but only a single step.

> You don't outsource to a third world software mill or AI when your concern is quality.

That's a disastrously fallacious set of presuppositions. A good engineer will use AI well to improve their software, whereas a bad engineer will use it to produce junk.

[godelski]

  > but it's not going to solve the problem

I believe I explicitly stated just as much.

I want to stress that this is a highly complex problem that needs to be solved and that means we need to break it down into smaller manageable tasks. You're not going to change everything overnight, a single person won't change things, nor will a single action change things. There's no clear definitive objective that needs to be solved to sole this problem. Nor is there a magic wizard in the tower that needs to be defeated.

In other words, I gave you my explanation for why I think this can be a step in the right direction (in a sister comment I said even more if you want to read that). But you have complained and given no alternative. Your only critique is that it does not solve the problem in one fell swoop. That was never an assumption I made, it is not a reasonable assumption to make (as you yourself are noting), and I explicitly said it is not an assumption being made. Do not invent problems to win an argument. All you've done is attempt to turn a conversation into an argument.

  > it would be a step in the right direction, but only a single step.

So don't stop after one step.

  > That's a disastrously fallacious set of presuppositions.

Read more carefully. I did not say "use AI" I said "outsource to AI". There is a huge difference in these two things.

Do we need to fight or can we actually have a discussion to help figure out this problem together? You do not need agree with me, contention can be beneficial to the process, but you do need to listen. I have no interest in fighting, so I'll leave the choice to you.