Slop: heavily depends on established coding standards and models
Alienation: the memory of a code decays faster true, but the product vision is still king
Deskilling: AI massively levels the skills at mid-senior level for virtually no effort, prototyping new ideas is cheaper than ever, code reviews are finally politics free
Team Fallout: the opposite, actually; now we have way more time to talk architecture and product future; coding doesn’t distract too much anymore
Like, really, hold it by the handle already, it’s a tool after all 😅
For team fallout, my experience has been the opposite of yours. People seem much more likely to post LLM summaries instead of directly engaging with questions. Granted many of them weren’t very engaged before so maybe this is a step up.
Here my story is the same. And I have to keep up with AI from time yo time to match the pace.
Luckily, we have a constructive AI usage policy which can be rephrased as “use openly”. this way it’s easy to shout “hey! AI stream backpressure signal” from time to time 😅
Team Fallout: the opposite, actually; now we have way more time to talk architecture and product future; coding doesn’t distract too much anymore
This has been the exact opposite of my experience. There is no more time, just more unreasonable expectations for productivity. In the few cases where there is more time, my teammates mostly use it to privately entertain some fanciful “that would be cool” ideas that are pretty far afield from the team’s product.
I don’t see the high contrast filter in effect. If anything I see social division between people who push every discussion into “give it to AI” or “here is a copy of what Claude says” vs others who have grown tired of every conversation moving in that direction and giving up on group discussions.
I mostly disagree.
Risky take:
Like, really, hold it by the handle already, it’s a tool after all 😅
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For team fallout, my experience has been the opposite of yours. People seem much more likely to post LLM summaries instead of directly engaging with questions. Granted many of them weren’t very engaged before so maybe this is a step up.
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Here my story is the same. And I have to keep up with AI from time yo time to match the pace.
Luckily, we have a constructive AI usage policy which can be rephrased as “use openly”. this way it’s easy to shout “hey! AI stream backpressure signal” from time to time 😅
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This has been the exact opposite of my experience. There is no more time, just more unreasonable expectations for productivity. In the few cases where there is more time, my teammates mostly use it to privately entertain some fanciful “that would be cool” ideas that are pretty far afield from the team’s product.
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I see, thank you for sharing. Been there during the agile revolution.
In your opinion, did AI materially change the team’s dynamics or just cranked the existing issues up like a high contrast filter for photos?
My take is that it’s not the faster BMW car turns a driver into a proverbial maniac, it’s the reverse. And they used to campaign on that AFAIC 😅
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I don’t see the high contrast filter in effect. If anything I see social division between people who push every discussion into “give it to AI” or “here is a copy of what Claude says” vs others who have grown tired of every conversation moving in that direction and giving up on group discussions.
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