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This is very normal now
Every CTO I've ever known has been a complete dipshit
I think a lot of the time they're engineers who think they're too good for engineering. Imagine being too arrogant to be an engineer, one of the most arrogant professions in my experience.
Like engineer engineer? Or software “engineer “?
Honestly both. Though there is something about coding that seems to attract or create a specific sense of superiority. Unless you're talking about train engineers, the few I've met have been really cool. This is all based purely on my experience but I've worked in engineering all of my adult life.
software engineers are insufferable for the most part though
I had a great CTO and the things that made him great (expertise with the platform, genuinely collaborative brainstorming, respect for teams’ autonomy) were gradually torn away via restructuring and “accountability” measures. Upper management can’t stand any sort of informal or horizontal structures producing good results because it invalidates there need for their existence.
Someone that is actually competent at hard to buy skills also becomes a liability for them. A healthy organization would use them to skill up their workforce. Capitalism looks for a way to make them unnecessary.
I saw a great retort today on AI programming gospel: ask the program to vibe debug. Not just take a streaming pile of broken code and turn it into something operational, accurately document what was wrong with the code and the steps taken to address each problem. Exceedingly narrow chance it will.
Especially true because it can't use a debugger.
if i use arcane knowledge of some data structures to get an LLM to make some scripts to work with those data structures in a programming language i don't know any syntax for to interface with tools i barely know how to use, and running those scripts produces a tangible result that's valuable to some people...
idk i simultaneously feel like i did something and didn't do anything because 15 years ago i probably had the mental faculties to learn a new language and some open-source software with a horrible ui but depression has rotted my brain and i can't do that anymore. I'm also probably the only english speaker who knows anything about about those data structures who isn't under some NDA so the downsteam results couldn't happen without me. But i didn't write any of the code, just roughly explained the logic to a scrabble bag.
"Behold my works ye mighty and despair"
-guy who never lifted even one brick in his life
that post earlier of a middle management guy going delusions because of the AI blowing smoke up his ass might be a view of the future.
dipass
No excuse to be ablest when you can say shit like this
i'm not looking it up but there's probably some 100+ year old etymological reason dipass is actually ableist and only four living people knew until somebody reads this comment and tells the rest of us.
me, learning that "Goober" is probably racist in origin 
huh i only know that from the folk song about peanuts.
Nguba being the Kongo word for peanut - enslaved Africans growing peanuts called them Nguba, which the slave owners morphed into "Goober", doubling as slang for a stupid person (as they viewed the enslaved).
This is what I hate about the AI push especially in companies with tech teams. We're not doing coding you're telling us to use software and we brag to our clients about how great we are at using the software. If we built our own models that would be tight but we're just using someone elses tools.
I think this is probably the way coding is going to go, assuming the economics of the whole thing works out. Which it might not. But I don't think you can just type some bullshit in the chat box and expect it to be any good.
for not very complicated things the prompt is pseudo code and as people want to make it more reliably do more complicated things the complexity of the prompts required will escalate into something that more closely resembles a programming language.
and it'll still fuck up like a buggy compiler that nobody can fix.
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