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Melon

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5. I spoke with an exec over major projects including AI

Reply to Disaffected (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 26, 2026, 06:15 PM

16 hrs ago

A few days ago. They converted all coders to basically supervising of AI roles responsible for checking and implementing code instead of righting it. His comments were as their in house AI has learned, the coding is just as accurate but the time savings is astronomical. The coders now review and implement the AI code. Those released were those that didn’t want to change. Everyone else kept roles.

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Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code (Futurism, 6/25) [View all] highplainsdem 18 hrs ago OP

how depressing BlueWaveNeverEnd 18 hrs ago #1

I agree. highplainsdem 17 hrs ago #3

I'm not a SW Eng but have written a lot of code Disaffected 18 hrs ago #2

I've seen thousands of social media complaints about AI coding, many for the reasons described highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #4

I spoke with an exec over major projects including AI Melon 16 hrs ago #5

That doesn't surprise me. Disaffected 15 hrs ago #8

Let them choke on it Prairie Gates 16 hrs ago #6

More alarmist nonsense frankly fujiyamasan 16 hrs ago #7