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0 pointsthrowaw1220d ago0 comments

> Just do more work, get more done

That's one of the reasons why I am terrified, because it can lead to burn out, and I personally don't like to babysit bunch of agents, because the output doesn't feel "mine", when its not "mine" I don't feel ownership.

And I am deliberately hitting the brake from time to time not to increase expectations, because I feel like driving someone else's car while not understanding fully how they tuned their car (even though I did those tunings by prompting)

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QuercusMax20d ago

It feels very much like leading a team of junior engineers or even interns who are very fast but have no idea about why we're doing anything. You have to understand the problems you're trying to solve and describe the solutions in a way they can be implemented.

It's not going to be written exactly like you would do it, but that's ok - because you care about the results of the solution and not its precise implementation. At some point you have to make an engineering decision whether to write it yourself for critical bits or allow the agent/junior to get a good enough result.

You're reviewing the code and hand editing anyway, right? You understand the specs even if your agent/junior doesn't, so you can take credit even if you didn't physically write the code. It's the same thing.

throwaw12OP20d ago

> It feels very much like leading a team of junior engineers or even interns who are very fast but have no idea about why we're doing anything

Yes, yes!

And this is problem for me, because of the pace, my brain muscles are not developing enough compared to when I was doing those things myself.

before, I was changing my mind while implementing the code, because I see more things while typing, and digging deeper, but now, because juniors are doing things they don't offer me a refactoring or improvements while typing the code quickly, because they obey my command instead of having "aha" moment to suggest better ways

layer820d ago

There’s some hope that the industry will realize that managing clueless LLMs at high pace isn’t sustainable and leads to worse results, and some middle ground has to be found. Or we will reach AGI, so AI won’t be clueless anymore and really take your engineering job.

ako20d ago

I'm currently a product manager (was a software engineer and technical architect before), so i already lost the feeling of ownership of code. But just like when you're doing product management with a team of software engineers, testers, and UXers, with AI you can still feel ownership of the feature or capability you're shipping. So from my perspective, nothing changes regarding ownership.

discreteevent20d ago

> So from my perspective, nothing changes regarding ownership.

The engineer who worked with you took ownership of the code! Have you forgotten this?

ako20d ago

No, that’s why I wrote “from my perspective”. I started long ago writing 6502 and 68000 assembly, later c and even later Java. Every step you lose ownership of the underlying layer. This is just another step. “But it’s non deterministic!”, yes so are developers. We need QA regardless who or what write the lines of code.

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QuercusMax20d ago

throwaw12OP20d ago

> It feels very much like leading a team of junior engineers or even interns who are very fast but have no idea about why we're doing anything

Yes, yes!

And this is problem for me, because of the pace, my brain muscles are not developing enough compared to when I was doing those things myself.

layer820d ago

ako20d ago

discreteevent20d ago

> So from my perspective, nothing changes regarding ownership.

The engineer who worked with you took ownership of the code! Have you forgotten this?

ako20d ago

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