[jennyholzer2]

LLMs have dramatically empowered sociopath software developers.

If you are sufficiently motivated to appear more "productive" than your coworkers, you can force them to review thousands of lines of incorrect AI slop code while you sit back and mess around with your chatbots.

Your coworkers no longer have enough time to work on their in-progress PRs, so you can dominate the development team in terms of LOC shipped.

Understand that sociopaths are skilled at navigating social and bureaucratic environments. A sociopath who ships the most LOC will get the promotion every single time.

[andy99]

Only if leadership lets them. Right now (anecdotally) a lot of “leaders” don’t understand the difference between AI generated and human generated work, and just look at loc as productivity so all incentives are on AI coding, but that will change.

[heliumtera]

It will never change. Managers will consider every stupid metric players push to sell their solutions. Be it code coverage, extensive CI/CD pipelines with useless steps, "productivity gains" with gen tools. The gen tools euphoria is stupid and will cease to exist, but before this was bdd,tdd,DDD, test before, test after, test your mocks, transpile to a different language and then ignore the output, code maturity, best practices, oop, pants in head oriented programming... There is always something stupid on the horizon this is certainly not the last stupid craze