Different company, but…
We were pressured to figure out how to incorporate blockchain technology.
I shit you not, we were pressured to figure out how to engage with customers in the metaverse.
Always accompanied by a message like this. Straight from the CEO. If we can’t share the vision we don’t belong.
This LLM hype feels a LITTLE different, but not much.
Its different because there are some practical use cases, such as rapid prototyping, throw away scripts for tedious tasks, and UI mockups.
For maintaining a system long term and all the effort that goes into optimizing and making code extendable and readable? It’s a disaster.
That, that’s the “little different”.
It does SOMETHING that has SOME value to SOME people.
even the “rapid prototyping” I hear about doesn’t really work very well in the context I work in (terrible legacy behemoth). I can see how it could maybe greenfield better.
I actually do anticipate these tools will improve. But that they’ll look more like existing and expanded high-end ide generation features then whatever the fuck the CEO thinks it’s going to be. And the CEO is already nickle-and-diming licences for much more basic and critical dev tools.
I just don’t see a real stomach for tool buys because it already isn’t there. We already have a wishlist of practical tools which would concretely improve productivity that they won’t buy us. Once investors realize this AI isn’t a fucking “I Robot” sitting in the office typing on a computer not asking for a holiday or saying “no” to weird sexual advances… I think appetite is going to dry up on their end, which will cascade to CEOs such that they can cut out the chest beating dick measuring theatrics. Because that’s who the show is for.
Cut to 1 million LLM-induced coding disasters with Curb music over it.
My LLM is now explaining how a CEO has no real purpose and someone paid much less can make decisions based upon how board members or stockholders would react.
Looks like Github is taking its threat model to a different meaning.
