There's this weird thing that happens with new tools where people seem to surrender their autonomy to them, e.g. "welp, I just get pings from [Slack|my phone|etc] all the time, nothing I can do than just be interrupted constantly." More recently, it's "this failed because Claude chose..." No, Claude didn't choose, the person who submitted the PR chose to accept it.
It's possible to use tools responsibly and effectively. It's also possible to encourage and mentor employees to do that. The idea that a dev has to be effectively on call because they're pushing AI slop is just wrong on so many levels.
I can relate to this, unfortunately these tools are becoming a very convenient way to offload any kind of responsibility when something goes wrong.
Hard to stay in flow and engaged.
Feels weirdly similar to being interrupted over slack.
At least in my case, flow is gone. It’s all context switching now.
I've seen people on social media bragging about how they're able to produce a mountain of code as if this was praiseworthy.
1. llms allow devs to be more productive, so more free time is seen as opportunity for more work. ppl overshoot and just work more
2. generalized tooling makes devs seem more replaceable putting downward pressure on job security (ie work harder or we’ll get someone who will, oh and for less money)
3. llms allow for more “multitasking” (debatable) via many running background tasks, so more opportunities to “just finish one more thing”
furyofantares•1h ago
At what point in time? Did anyone foresee coding being one of the best and soonest applications of this stuff?
antonvs•1h ago
It's why Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI etc. were developed at all - it was clear that if you wanted a concrete application of LLMs with clear productivity benefits, coding was low-hanging fruit, so all the AI vendors jumped on that and started hyping it.
furyofantares•53m ago
I do agree that it was thought that these llm-agents would be extremely useful and that is why they were developed, and I happen to believe they in fact are extremely useful (without disagreeing that much of the stuff in the article definitely does happen.)
I just sort of resent the setup that it was supposed to be X but actually it failed, when not only is there only minor evidence that it failed, but it was only a brief period in time when it was supposed to be X.