When I studied Computer Science about 30 years ago, all the old professors already told us it's not about writing code. There will always be someone somewhere who does it faster and cheaper. This is nothing you need to study.
A good (...) and secure design is the thing to learn. The programming is not the point...

To bad the marketing guys got in charge for leading the IT...

So already your first claim is wrong...

And don't forget, Waymo's goal is not to save lives but to make money. I wouldn't bet on them.

@BmeBenji @elizayer @beep

@elizayer @beep @spinni81

We have a really small team at work, with widely varying levels of experience. In this team I've been the firehose that produces more code than anybody can review, if just left to my devices like in the olden days. These days, with the introduction of mandated reviews and sprints and whatnot, I spend maybe a week having fun coding and then couple of weeks spinning wheels and getting bored and frustrated while waiting for reviews. And now they're starting to *mandate* use of AI agents for work "to accelerate" *wild handwaving* everything. For deitys sake.

I suppose their vision of the workflow is for the humans to describe what they want, have AI generate the code and then the human can review it by themselves. It does change the review dynamics for sure, but it doesn't remove the bottleneck - it would still be review, just going even slower because the human is now required to understand the random slop generated by a thing that doesn't think in the process of creation. Vitally, it also eliminates the sanity check of another human being in the loop. We all sometimes get carried away and lose perspective, and it takes another person boggling at your creation from a distance, "what the heck are you trying to accomplish here?"

Finally, that workflow would also eliminate the single item I actually care about my work: lovingly crafting and carving code. I will not be sitting around reviewing AI slop for the rest of my career.

@dpp @elizayer

“The world is bad already, so let’s make it worse”
Have fun !

@elizayer @hbons

We are using a toxic form of communication (oh… yeah… mastodon is toxic light) that has destroyed the trust in institutions and is the proximate cause of the rise of authoritarian regimes

Yes, I use tools that have negative externalities.

I use these tools to explore and create.

You don’t like it, ignore me.

@elizayer @hbons

The answer is, and always has been, viable alternatives to driving. Namely, good public transport (with level boarding), good cycling and walking infrastructure. Automated vehicles may have their place in the world but not as mass transport.

@BmeBenji @beep

So you created some things quickly. Now they exist. If that’s all they ever do, you spent (likely) thousands of dollars on agent time to create something for no reason.

So what?