Comment by eru

Comment by eru 18 hours ago

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> Would really like to present it to management that pushes ai assistance for coding

Your management presumably cares more about results, than your long term cognitive decline?

ezst 17 hours ago

Good of you to suppose that engineers cognitive decline doesn't translate into long term impactful business challenges as well. I mean, once you truly don't know your product and its capabilities any longer, what's left for you to "sell"?

  • eru 17 hours ago

    To quote myself:

    > Companies don't own employees: workers can leave at any time.

    > Thus protecting employees productivity in the long run doesn't necessarily help the company. (Unless you explicitly set up contracts that help there, or there are strong social norms in your place around this.)

    • ezst 15 hours ago

      You are talking about productivity, I'm talking about knowledge. You may come-up with a product, then fire all engineers having built it. Then, what? It's not sustainable for a business to start from scratch every other year. Your LLM won't be a substitute for owning your product.

      • eru 9 hours ago

        Your workers can still quit, and take their knowledge with them.

tguvot 18 hours ago

i guess one of the questions is how quick cognitive decline sets it and how it influences system stability (we have big system with very high sla due to nature of system and it takes some serious cognitive abilities to reason about it operation).

if todays productivity is traded for longer term stability, i am not sure that it's a risk they would like to take

  • eru 17 hours ago

    Companies don't own employees: workers can leave at any time.

    Thus protecting employees productivity in the long run doesn't necessarily help the company. (Unless you explicitly set up contracts that help there, or there are strong social norms in your place around this.)

    • tguvot 15 hours ago

      i am not talking about productivity. i am talking about quality and knowledge

      • eru 9 hours ago

        Your workers can still quit, and take their knowledge with them.