Post #1715488
2026-04-27 00:44 UTC
Replies (9)
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@brandonscript@appdot.net 2026-04-27 00:50
@headius@mastodon.social I will say, that for me it's been a bit of a relief to not have to remember every detail all the time. I've let myself forget things. Caveat: I still review all the code that ends up in prod so maybe I'm an odd one out. @timbray@cosocial.ca
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@rose@linuxrocks.online 2026-04-27 00:55
@headius@mastodon.social Possibly some developers whose... belts are starting to slip... can still make contributions that would otherwise exceed their current capabilities by using these tools? Age-based erosion of coding competence is a real thing, a thing I have personal experience with.
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@dpp@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 00:58
@headius@mastodon.social I don’t think it’s possible to write non-trivial code with an LLM without understanding both the code and the system architecture. So often, LLMs write code that does a single thing but without regard for the system that thing is operating in… ensuring the code is appropriate for the system is what I focus on. If anything, it’s forced me to be explicit about how the software is shaped in a way that was implicit for my past 48 years of writing software
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@jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io 2026-04-27 01:06
@headius@mastodon.social The fundamentals of software engineering become more relevant and important when application and feature code becomes cheap to sketch. Cheap to sketch, often illegibly and inconsistently. Static analysis, performance monitoring, continuous integration, and ops visibility have to be up to the load of doubtful application code. Not to leave aside the importance of specific and legible tests of system transitions and invariants.
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@liebach@mastodon.art 2026-04-27 07:03
@headius@mastodon.social AI dementia. That's a good expression for it.
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@jdarais@sfba.social 2026-04-27 21:54
@headius@mastodon.social or developers who can't seem to have a technical discussion on anything without feeding your input to Claude first to figure out what they should think about it.
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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange 2026-04-27 23:58
@headius@mastodon.social There's a disturbing trend of developers I've known for years now suddenly being unable to discuss even basic aspects of modern software development. They have become so calcified and unable to embrace new skills relaying on orthodoxy and conservative software development, they can't even innovate or learn new, more efficient and challenging techniques. Feels like losing friends to dementia. 😢
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@Pauvi@mastodon.art 2026-04-28 10:06
@headius@mastodon.social at work, some coworkers that used be quite good at programming, ended up prompting a lot to know how to code a simple currency exchange logic. All the necessary data for that task was alrdeady in the programm. No api calls for getting the values of each currency, nor anything like that, was even necessary
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@valpackett@social.treehouse.systems 2026-04-28 20:03
@headius@mastodon.social damn that's scary. I'm quite a hater of the whole LLM thing and the deskilling is certainly one of my concerns but I did not believe that some of it would be so immediate, so fast. WTAF