I agree code produced is a poor measure. And I agree that some of the bigger pieces of coding were everything you mention, coding still did take _some_ amount of time.
Usually in a day I have one agent going on whatever my large, main task is, generally feature work of some sort. Previously this is what most of my sprints would have been filled with.
But now, while that's going I have one or two others simultaneously working on crashes (I do mobile), other bugs, a small refactor, or maybe a small enhancement.
And finally I usually have another where I'm querying analytics or working on higher level questions to try and help guide what we should do next, either from a product or technical perspective.
A single one of these are all sped up by using LLMs but to be able to do several in parallel makes me much more effective than I was before. This is why I believe that those who don't use these tools properly will be left behind.
I do think, however, that holding out on it is a losing proposition. It's a very useful productivity tool if you know how to use it and those who don't will be left behind.
Then we can persecute the sinners that have premarital sex, eat pork, curse, work on Sundays, operate machinery on Saturdays or any sort of other backwards hick shit these idiots believe.
I wasn't claiming there was a financial motivation one way or the other simply stating the actors who do turn a profit with regards to the US prison system.
The explosion of incarceration and the private prisons resulting from that largely come from "the war on drugs". The book The New Jim Crow is pretty good if you're interested in the topic.
"We" live in a democracy and our leaders are chosen by "us". You don't get to pick and choose. You are your government assuming you're from any western democracy.
The planet is becoming inhospitable for humans and honestly likely for the best. At least some folks will get rich out of it.
Yeah I'm in a similar boat - these experiences are wildly outside of my experience working on a moderately large, professional codebase on a daily basis.
The article uses Kafkaesque and boy I cannot think of a better way to describe having to prove to platforms your voice is real because it had been stolen at such scale that people assume it is AI.
This is my position as well - people say we need to do things for the planet. Planet will be just fine - it's us who will suffer and honestly it's for the best. Just end this shit
I think the biggest thing is most software "engineering" jobs are in no way engineering and are closer to a trade like being a mechanic or (imo) a doctor.
It's fairly rote - you need good judgement and to stay current in latest state of the art but generally speaking you're not researching (nor should you be) cutting edge algorithms or anything.
Add a new button, add some parameters to this analytics call, implement dark mode. These are the things that everyone is doing at their six-figure tech jobs.
Usually in a day I have one agent going on whatever my large, main task is, generally feature work of some sort. Previously this is what most of my sprints would have been filled with.
But now, while that's going I have one or two others simultaneously working on crashes (I do mobile), other bugs, a small refactor, or maybe a small enhancement.
And finally I usually have another where I'm querying analytics or working on higher level questions to try and help guide what we should do next, either from a product or technical perspective.
A single one of these are all sped up by using LLMs but to be able to do several in parallel makes me much more effective than I was before. This is why I believe that those who don't use these tools properly will be left behind.