Post #2490853

2026-05-08 14:13 UTC

@hdv@front-end.social A friend of a friend was told by his manager that he _wasn't allowed_ to write code by hand, his manager wanted him to only use an LLM. Which is mad.

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@kjhank@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-08 17:00

@ragman@jawns.club @hdv@front-end.social This is exactly what the place I work at is doing. Under the name of "spec-driven development", which boils down to tl describing the feature into the chatbot for it to generate markdown files. Which then itself reads, and then vomits out some garbage code. Which then I have to go through, and type in what's wrong, so it generates more garbage, while telling me how smart I am for noticing that an input should be labeled. Rinse and repeat several times. It adds the comments to a `learnings.md` file, which it totally ignores in further "work", just like it does with its `skills.md` and all the other garbage that's supposed to make it amazing and flawless, and it of course never does. It sucks every bit of joy I had left for working there. But management is happy.

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