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by sajithdilshan
61 days ago
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You do realize that bad management would still be bad management regardless of AI right? "Fred is much faster than you" has been used by management way before AI was there will aways be scenarios like that regardless of AI or any other tool or technology. Blaming bad management on advances on AI is quite naive and it actually doesn't achieve anything. If the management is the problem then you have to address that and fix that and AI has nothing to do it. Today the management would use AI as an excuse and tomorrow they would use the next hype word. |
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Fred now generates 5,000 lines of horse-dung that appears to work and management are gob-smacked. It is extremely fragile, has no security and the tests are all autogenerated so nobody knows if they're even testing what is actually important but...
Above the team-lead level, management, product manager etc have no idea what's inside a piece of work that makes it maintainable or secure or anything else and all they see is their idea realised and the person who did it has a golden halo so you cannot say a single negative thing about the work without a tonne of shit pouring on you.
This has happened to me. It was in the days when ChatGPT was much worse than it is now and the code was almost one big hallucination - indescribable how bad it was. The only advantage I had was that the whole team, other than Fred of course, rejected the PR. It caused a world of horrible problems though and incredible behavior from "Fred" and yet he was able to get away with it until he finally stepped so far over the line that nobody could support him. It caused other team members to leave though so it was a disaster.