2026-04-29 06:56 UTC
@danluu Even if we accept the premise of corporate productivity we've always had a group of people who cared mostly about how their work performance looks like rather than what it actually is.
If you assume we only have competent people who care about their results - sure. At a meager cost of pricing a family in OHIO out of utilities you can speed up the repetitive part of development.
If you look at the minority which never cared about quality - you speed their "work" up by factors more.
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@makdaam@chaos.social 2026-04-29 07:06
@danluu We've already seen a wave of slop report spam come and go in bug bounty programs. IMO they were the first because of the financial incentive. In the near future I expect waves of PRs in FOSS which implement an actual missing feature or fix an issue. They won't be obviously wrong. They will make sense in the smaller scope but won't take the wider architecture into account. Just because average code quality is the best we can hope for when we feed the code available online into an LLM.