programming·Programmingbycodeinabox Your Career Isn't Eroding - You're Just Holding the Wrong Moathttps://blog.herlein.com/post/domain-plus-software-superpower/Open linkView original on programming.dev17Comments5Reply
887Six replylemmy.zipI can't even tell you how many times people around me do this. At some point x feature was requested. First thing was an AI prompt asking how it could be done and how long it would take. "3 days" was the response. They had never implemented that before, ever. Told the client right away. It took around a month to get to a working state.3Reply
RamenJunkie replymidwest.socialAI is really great at giving a beginner tier understanding of something, which people then take and run with as if they are now an expert.2Reply
JJakenVeina midwest.socialThe author may be, in theory, right, but it counts for nothing if the people in charge don't recognize where that actual value is. Which MANY of them do not.8Reply
GGamingChairModel replylemmy.worldBecause it obviously was. The dashes, the short sentences, the bullet points, the overly familiar tone that seems LinkedIn-ish. All of it sounds like AI.6Reply
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I can't even tell you how many times people around me do this.
At some point x feature was requested.
First thing was an AI prompt asking how it could be done and how long it would take.
"3 days" was the response. They had never implemented that before, ever. Told the client right away.
It took around a month to get to a working state.
AI is really great at giving a beginner tier understanding of something, which people then take and run with as if they are now an expert.
The author may be, in theory, right, but it counts for nothing if the people in charge don't recognize where that actual value is. Which MANY of them do not.
Why does this read like it was written by Claude?
Because it obviously was.
The dashes, the short sentences, the bullet points, the overly familiar tone that seems LinkedIn-ish. All of it sounds like AI.