This is more of a rant if anything, but I’m just fed up of having to baby every single person in this damn company who is all in on AI programming shit??? meanwhile I’m having to rewrite ship over and over and over and over because the AI sloppers don’t actually know what they’ve written, and now I’m needing to refactor shit from the ground up so at least someone understands it??? and the problem is if I bring this up in any reasonable grown up way so as “why the fuck have you rewritten my code and not tested it so this features I’ve worked hours on are now completely broken until I come back to check on them???” I would obviously be the problem here.
to make things worse, being neurodivergent at work means that you are cursed with constantly finding shit that makes life more difficult for everyone, not getting any of the praise for fixing it, and not being able to formulate why the fuck these people are being so disruptive to everyone else’s productivity in the first place. I just want to code shit, I don’t want to have the constantly relearn what someone else can’t be bothered to learn themselves, and then get told but I’m not doing enough to log what work I’m doing.
it’s like I’m doing basic IT support for these fuckers too, asking me basic shit like why is this thing not working and they’ve just clearly not clicked the big fucking link so they can read why it isn’t working so they’d understand it better. they just expect you to slop it onto their plate as if you’re the AI agent for them. that’s why this shit is so popular with people who don’t know a thing about programming: they get to have all of the credit for writing something but not have to admit that not only do they not know shit but they’re actually relying on other people to know the shit for them. pure entitlement complex.
and yeah, maybe I’m a bit of a purist who sees his work is a bit more of a craft rather than a disgusting episode of life to get through as quickly as possible. fine. but it gets to the point where I’m almost sick of seeing code and sick of writing it and dealing with it all because I have to constantly be exposed to stuff that doesn’t work because no one gives a shit. maybe that’s why I’m getting more into carpentry recently.
Personally I would just send it back and tell them to do it right, maybe document the problems and your time finding them but I wouldn’t rewrite it for them. I don’t know your situation though, maybe that’s not an option
I just want to code shit, I don’t want to have the constantly relearn what someone else can’t be bothered to learn themselves, and then get told but I’m not doing enough to log what work I’m doing.
That sounds like a malicious compliance opportunity; document In fine detail the fuck ups you’ve fixed, what the AI slop code did that caused the fuck up, and which vibecoder failed to check if “their” code works or not. They want logs, give them transparent logs.
nb this isn’t purely anti AI it’s anti slop/vibecoders who think theyre engineers
Honestly the more people let themselves accept the bullshit that tech bros push as “revolutionary” the more we’ll be seeing this type of degradation of work.
I have at least one coworker who defaults to solving problems using AI even though most of what we do is basic hardware troubleshooting. So anytime something goes wrong they just give up and throw their hands in the air and it falls to me to troubleshoot.
And I honestly don’t mind most of the time, but when it gets busy and im buried under my own work it annoys me that there isn’t at least a minimum effort to do the sort of troubleshooting you learn about when you are getting basic certifications.
I’ve said it before, but I really do worry about the future with so many people buying into the snake oil that these AI services are.
people who bother to read error messages and attempt to understand them through an internet search or two are somehow the rarest diamonds on earth.
i also can’t stand how every time some bozo brings up “using AI” as some kind of priority or directive, even going so far are starting a tasking group (committee, community of practice) to find ways to implement AI use in processes… it is 100% of the time the least technical, most tech-illiterate person in a group. and generally someone with leadership roles.
it’s like all the other bullshit buzzword marketing hype crap that came before, but x100. lets just crytpo it into the blockchain! with quantum computing! and blast processing!
I now have people calling me over because their Grok-written slop doesn’t work and 100% of the time the answer is easily google-able. Just a few years ago I had to google answers for some middle-aged lady from accounting and now I get to do this for people with STEM degrees! THINGS ARE EXTREMELY NORMAL RIGHT NOW!
I thought I only had to deal with that in my school group project lol. Don’t get me wrong, my teammates are amazing and capable people, but I think the deadlines and the general sentiment that “AI is better and faster” got to them. So I don’t blame them at all.
if it makes you feel any better theyll fire you first and then in a few weeks when everything crumbles hire you back as a contractor for twice the rate
