Post #1106466
2026-04-11 09:33 UTC
Replies (8)
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@elduvelle@neuromatch.social 2026-04-11 10:22
@bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party great read - thanks for sharing!
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@frankreiff@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 15:09
@bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party @sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place It’s undeniably accurate, but doing things that have no value to signal busyness to bosses that don’t understand, in order to give ammunition to CEOs to convince markets that they should speculate on shares in your company rather than that other equally dysfunctional one over there is what “corporate capitalism” is all about.
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@profan@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-11 17:30
@bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party I think even ignoring the AI slander bit (which obviously is what got me to read it) this is a great writeup and relevant even pre the slopcode era, everyone has seen some version of all of these pains I reckon
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@btel@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 22:42
@bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party it is so true. It's something that I experience all the time at work but I couldnt quite put my finger on it
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@mako@social.seattle.wa.us 2026-04-12 00:29
@bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online I’ve said this probably 100x the last month alone: “AI is not replacing engineers; it is exposing how much of modern software engineering was optimized around process and time management rather than engineering.”
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@dartigen@aus.social 2026-04-12 00:43
@bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party It actually sounds like this is describing a long term issue in software that AI is just the most recent attempt at a quick fix for, because the actual solutions are, as the author admits, kind of boring and unglamorous. I've never worked in software, but the case of 'the bottleneck is at station C but management just did something to make station A more productive instead even though it seems pretty obvious that C needs the help' is very familiar. Not sure if it would predate AI in the software or tech industries, but in others it definitely does.
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@AnnieG@mementomori.social 2026-04-12 01:32
@bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party I'm sad how much sense this makes! Since I retired at the start of the pandemic from a 20-year career building Web applications for an academic research division, I missed having to wrangle with AI - prompts, code, or sycophancy. But having been insulated throughout my career due to the non-existent managerial layer (PMs were on to the next research job by the time I had data to work with, and I generally had to invent requirements) I had no idea that the screwed-up chain from no specifications to no user testing or feedback is the same when actual profit is involved! This makes me feel a bit better about my career, and a WHOLE lot more solid about all my reservations concerning AI.
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@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk 2026-04-12 02:55
@bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party i'm here to say that the section "so where is the real bottleneck" is, 100%, accurate.