This is a lot of it for me. "All users care about is that they can drive a car across the bridge. They don't care if an AI built it."

I want a solid, proud, well-engineered bridge, goddammit!

The engineers who hype AI the hardest are the mediocre ones. They lack the skills (or the motivation) to write quality code themselves, so they ask the LLMs to do it for them. Then they get to pretend they wrote it themselves, and a business idiot hands them a gold star.

I totally get why there's so much hype for AI.

I am not totally anti AI but I don’t use coding harnesses. I see my coworkers using coding harnesses decline in basic engineering mentalities, asking me questions easily answered with a modicum of research or thinking, but claude told them something so they ask me.

I don’t think these are bad guys or bad engineers, it’s concerning to me though. Engineers should be getting sharper in their analysis over time not weaker. When someone tells me they haven’t even looked at a few lines of code they submitted it’s shocking and a sign of sloppy thinking. It’s rude too because is expecting me to pick up their slack.

I’m sure the AI companies are in love with the idea that people are growing dependent on their product for things they could easily do themselves. That’s a great business.