Post #2490854
2026-05-08 17:00 UTC
@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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@ragman@jawns.club 2026-05-09 13:36
@kjhank@social.vivaldi.net @hdv@front-end.social What a nightmare. I hope it changes for the better soon.
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@iclavijos@mastodon.social 2026-05-22 05:30
@kjhank@social.vivaldi.net @ragman@jawns.club @hdv@front-end.social add to that nonsense all the "watch out, this model is no longer cheap to use", "don't use that other model for this task because it never does a good job", "I ran out of tokens, please add to the extra usage bag". As you very well said, all that I loved about being a developer and working in IT is gone and now is a perpetual sadness and unhappiness