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2022/2023 is when the AI wrecking crews came in in full force

• pydry 1mo ago
  Yea there were layoffs blamed on AI even when GPT 3.5 couldnt write a line of code to save its life. That's public relations for you. No exec wants to chalk up a layoff to a faltering company that can't grow sales even if it's not their fault.
  • dan_q 1mo ago
    At my job in 2023, after the staff engineers quit, new-hire engineers backed by new-hire managers pushed through a series of 5,000-10,000 line GPT 3.5 PRs affecting ludicrously convoluted, critical Makefiles designed and maintained by engineers who had left the company because of AI initiatives. Even when AI couldn't write a line of code to save its life, I watched this company push out its strongest engineering talent to replace a series of well-constructed codebases with subhuman AI slop. They hired a wrecking crew of managers and engineers who were incentivized to ram the AI slop through as quickly as possible.
    • alanmoraes 1mo ago
      What happened to the project and to the company?