[bad_username]

> Yes the code (sorta) writes itself, but the human reviewing, directing, and course-correcting feels worse, not better.

I noticed the opposite. When reviewing and directing a colleague or subordinate, I spend probably 30% of my brain cycles, and 70% of my activation energy, to weigh the technical merit of my feedback against the human impact it will make: bruised egos, differing architectural convictions, correct and polite tone of comments, additional workload for the colleague. The dread of potentially seeing that the code is not good at all, and needing to decide _what to do in that situatuon_, trading off technical debt in the future vs team dynamics and psychological impact right now.

LLM does not care about any of that. It is so much easier.

[hdjrudni]

Amusingly, when I know my peer is just going to point his AI at my feedback, I write for their AI, not for them. I'm much more curt. Maybe not so amusing but I don't feel bad about dumping a laundry list of fixes for them.

[dspillett]

> Amusingly, when I know my peer is just going to point his AI at my feedback, I write for their AI, not for them.

At this point, why not just talk directly to the AI?

Asking as someone who is likely leaving dev, and maybe tech completely, very soon, possibly to go wait tables, as he hates everything about the way things have gone in the last half decade or more with remote work, stupid levels of unnecessary complication everywhere (people architecting to be the next Amazon as soon as, or even before, they have three users, and just about every thing client-side), and now generative AI, and would rather be replaced by a Claude license and a monkey to use it than deal with generative AI & related agents himself…

[Henchman21]

Thanks for this, I feel slightly less alone in my feelings towards tech these days.

[dspillett]

I think three are far more of us than speak out. Most don't have the luxury of potentially committing career suicide by speaking their minds so openly within jobs where such thoughts would make them seem entirely uncommitted to the vision and therefore someone to be moved on.

[boorang]

yes- as a technical lead that has gone back and forth with engineers on PRs who kept saying "it's good enough", it's nice to be able to say "just do it the right way" and not get pushback.

[titanomachy]

Maybe tech workers are going to evolve into a different species, immune to emotional arguments and no longer capable of mating with humans