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    It’s always the AI. We all know they’re pushing the AI button before even reading the rest of the label!

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    I remember 10 years or so ago working with a guy who was trying to sell me on the wonders of Eclipse. “It writes all this boilerplate for you!” I was more interested in writing in languages that were less shit and required less boilerplate.

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    It’s not really that hard to implement AI as far as I can tell, even if it does produce garbage results. Any CEO that thinks otherwise is getting bamboozled.

    Not that I’m defending AI, boilerplate is still boilerplate and a crappier product is a crappier product. But they’ll take that trade off anyway which is why heads need to roll, lol

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    It’s the new “promotion machine.” The first manager: “I saved this company x dollars using AI, promote me.” The new manager: “I increased productivity by x percent getting rid of AI, promote me.” Repeat.

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    12 hours ago

    C) Write a highly specific, custom-tailored boilerplate generator that does 80% of the work and needs only a day or two to implement.

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      This sounds just extremely dumb to me, as in “do something manually for 2 minutes or spend 2 days automating it”

      Also, DRY in 90% of the cases is a sham

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      D) spend millions developing an AI to generate the boilerplate generator badly