The engineer, who posted anonymously on X under the username voxium for fear of reprisal from his employer, called his new role at an undisclosed company "soul-sucking."
It outputs compilable/runable code. And if it doesn’t it can process error messages and retry until it outputs compilable/runable code.
Sucks that this is my life for now or to have to look for something else eventually but even worse is to consider how this rollout might effect other industries where just trying shit until it sort of works is actually extremely harmful.
Yeah but it has to be so much worse with anything where you don’t have automated ways to verify shit. Not to say that it doesn’t still make things worse.
Something like OpenClaw connected to anything actually important is fucking terrifying and that’s on an individual scale.
Like they are already using this shit to write laws, lawyers use it at court. That’s a whole nother level of everything is fucked.
In my experience, for the very generic software engineering tasks I have given to LLMs, they are decent at writing code and refining it until it works. Sometimes the code is even pretty good. They have gotten much, much better as of late (last 6 months), and now even DeepSeek’s cheapest model is solid for the narrow purpose of writing code.
Now, this is not to say anything about the long term effects of this, where engineers have no idea how the codebase they are working on is structured, and all interactions with it have to go through the LLM, nor the broad negative societal consequences of using LLMs at scale, which would be far too long to enumerate in this comment.
Is the AI actually working?
It outputs compilable/runable code. And if it doesn’t it can process error messages and retry until it outputs compilable/runable code.
Sucks that this is my life for now or to have to look for something else eventually but even worse is to consider how this rollout might effect other industries where just trying shit until it sort of works is actually extremely harmful.
it is already harmful in this industry lol
Yeah but it has to be so much worse with anything where you don’t have automated ways to verify shit. Not to say that it doesn’t still make things worse.
Something like OpenClaw connected to anything actually important is fucking terrifying and that’s on an individual scale.
Like they are already using this shit to write laws, lawyers use it at court. That’s a whole nother level of everything is fucked.
In my experience, for the very generic software engineering tasks I have given to LLMs, they are decent at writing code and refining it until it works. Sometimes the code is even pretty good. They have gotten much, much better as of late (last 6 months), and now even DeepSeek’s cheapest model is solid for the narrow purpose of writing code.
Now, this is not to say anything about the long term effects of this, where engineers have no idea how the codebase they are working on is structured, and all interactions with it have to go through the LLM, nor the broad negative societal consequences of using LLMs at scale, which would be far too long to enumerate in this comment.
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