[ActionHank]

Now imagine that your work specs are generated by an AI agent that the EM is using.

Do you still care about the work?

[SpicyLemonZest]

Even if I do still care about it, I hope I'm not so naive as to think that following the words of the AI agent will cause me to achieve my EM's intent. They'd be a useful reference at best for my actual knowledge of what they want that I found elsewhere.

[criley2]

Brother, I don't care who writes the specs as long as they sign the checks on time. And yes, I do care about my work even if upstream is slop. In a relay race, you can lower your performance to weakest leg, or you can be the strongest leg. And maybe I just like to run.

[ActionHank]

Fair enough, but now imagine that the code is slop too. You're getting slopped from both sides, do you still care?

[criley2]

In my humble opinion, most of the code I've ever touched was slop, and I think I left it in a better state than I found it. What more can you do?

[bastawhiz]

If my manager can't be bothered to do any actual work but expects me to, no. I'm quitting. Next question.