Dude, so many times I have encountered bad software lately, and I always thought, some Idiot must have used LLM for this. And I don't even know why. Everything that already was working good started breaking down for some reason. Why are devs wrecking their code base just to fix minor bugs?

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The execs and shareholders demand it in order to justify the massive investment they've made in their shitty chatbots.

[–] RidcullyTheBrown@programming.dev 5 points 21 hours ago

Or, hear me out, they're doing it to justify their continuous employment.

We could have stopped developing almost every piece of popular software in 2018 or so and the world would have been a better place, but imagine putting YouTube or whatever, Slack, Reddit, etc in maintenance mode a decade ago and only investing in scalability and stability. Wouldn't the world be a better place?

But that would mean that a lot of people would be out of a job, entire departments really, so they're doing crap to justify their existence

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

They also want training data from their employees correcting the agents so the agents can eventually replace them (that's what they're hoping for at least).

[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

We need more paperclips and we need them now!!!