Putting solutions in to production. Not "things". Honestly I'm sick of dogshit companies wanting something done yesterday but are happy to spend the next 2 years having engineers debug the consequences.
I've just written the fifth from-scratch version of a component at work. The requirements have never changed (it's a client library for a proprietary server, which has barely ever changed). I'm the 5th developer at the company to write a version of it.
All because nobody gave engineers the breathing room to factor the solution in to well thought out, testable, reusable components. Every version before is a spaghetti soup of code, mixing up unrelated functionality in to a handful of files.
No well thought out interfaces. No automated end-to-end testing, and no automated regression testing. The whole thing is dire and no managers give a fuck.
AI cannot solve for a lack of engineering culture. It can however produce trash faster than ever at these toxic shops.
And this has nothing to do with AI like you said. On another project my vibe coded API that I designed I also didn’t look at a line of code besides the shell script I had Claude create to do the integration tests with curl.
On the other hand, AI doesn’t care about sloppy code. I haven’t done any serious web development since 2002, yet I created two decently featureful internal websites without looking at a line of code authenticated with Amazon Cognito. I doubt for the lifetime of this app, anyone will ever look at a line of code and make any changes using AI.
I've just written the fifth from-scratch version of a component at work. The requirements have never changed (it's a client library for a proprietary server, which has barely ever changed). I'm the 5th developer at the company to write a version of it.
All because nobody gave engineers the breathing room to factor the solution in to well thought out, testable, reusable components. Every version before is a spaghetti soup of code, mixing up unrelated functionality in to a handful of files.
No well thought out interfaces. No automated end-to-end testing, and no automated regression testing. The whole thing is dire and no managers give a fuck.
AI cannot solve for a lack of engineering culture. It can however produce trash faster than ever at these toxic shops.