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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
MaddieM4@raphus.social wrote:
One of the psychologically damaging things early in the LLM hype cycle was this common refrain I heard from so many people around me: "I thought we cared about quality, here, but apparently if it's the bots, we'll cut any corner and eat any downtime and act like it's the future, and if I had caused any of these outages I would have been fired." It felt like a broken social contract, and I guess it was.
But I think that the bosses never cared that hard about quality. I think that was theater - partly for investor benefit, but mainly, for us. For retention, because recruiting is expensive and institutional knowledge is slow to rebuild. For reputation, because we talk. But also for satisfaction, because happy devs do better faster work and demand less. So, kayfabe culture.
LLMs offer an end to the ritual, they need no such appeasement. And you might think this is only for business. But fossbro, these tools put you in the manager role, and you will become a managerial thinker. You should ponder where that goes.