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by jordanb 21 days ago
Well most experienced developers I know hate it and agree it's taken all pleasure out of the work. We've spent our careers designing and building high quality software systems. But now we're told our job is to use the plagiarism box to sling slop all the time. Those who can are transitioning out of the field.

This is an industry where American developers have successfully competed on quality with the rest of the world for years. We never were very cheap but we always were the best and worth our premium. Now that's being destroyed by a short-sighted industry.

I'd like to just do something else and work on open source. Except I know if I contribute to open source my work will just be stolen by the plagiarism bot.

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You can read many posts here by very experienced developers who disagree.

It’s possible that the experienced developers you know just aren’t that good at adapting to major changes like this.

Another possibility is that people are afraid to speak up when the threat is termination

"Stroustrup points out that some senior developers are starting to retire because they're tired of constantly validating unpredictable AI code. "

https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/bjarne-stroustrup-...