I don’t think people here understand that Lauri Kesküll
is saying famous last words about CEOs, not developers.

Like what investor needs Lauri Kesküll to run a company when it can be run by just a few developers.
Why not merge into a larger company and get rid of all the “middle management”?

I remember seeing that happening once.
Special meeting, all cries, he got flowers from us though.

“Doogie Howser here hasn’t even had a day of med school, but thanks to AI he’s writing 5000 drug prescriptions per day!”

“We literally found this homeless man on the street ranting about lizard people, and now thanks to AI he’s the the biggest stud at the hedge fund, making hundreds of multi-billion dollar trades every day!”

“Betty here failed out of high school and can’t even pronounce ‘nuclear’ properly, but thanks to AI she wrote the entire atomic power plant safety manual in a day.”

“Would you believe that Fred is still in a coma? Yeah, doctors say he’s ‘in a persistent vegetative state’ and ‘never going to recover after that i-beam crushed his head’, and ‘what you people are doing is both cruel and insane’. But, we hooked DeepSeek up to his respirator and heart monitor and connected some black and red wires together and he’s back to working as an air traffic controller!”

If 1 then odd. If 2 then even. If 3 then odd. Etc

My sloc is amazing. It works (unless you care about performance) and AI might even be trustworthy to continue the pattern.

Okay.

Get him on a call with a customer to explain why their payroll is broken.

That should be fun.

Can you imagine the absolute nightmare that the digital world will become once major infrastructure and every other app is poisoned by AI codebases filled with vulnerabilities and nightmare convoluted setups to do basic things?

Have you even seen what Claude does, randomly, if you tell it a simple bug fix you requested didn’t work? I’ve seen it simply say “Oh, sorry, let’s try something else” and start rewriting everything - from top to bottom - trying to fit previous code in it’s limited context window so it ends up generating this abhorrent mix of code segments that do nothing but look important, fragments of the original code base, and a lot of new code that doesn’t even fix the issue in the first place.

I hope he didn’t use Claude because oh boy it maybe costed more than a real developer.

I think this was an episode of Silicon Valley

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I can certainly understand why one of your libraries was bothering you if you’re merging 250,000 lines of AI generated code in a month.

now ask them to maintain the 250k lines, probably fine for rew more commits, but after that? Oh look, they left the company for the next ai-nonsense-startup.

They’re going to take your job.

🤓📚🤚🦋 Is this an empathetic message?

I wonder why everyone hates CEOs

Translated:

High-schoolers are even cheaper and easier to exploit than new grads, and if I don’t care if they know nothing as long as they can prop up our crappy app just long enough for me to sell the company, pocket a bunch of cash, get them all fired, and move on to my next scam entrepreneurial venture while preaching to people about being an innovator and a job creator. Maintenance is for whichever sucker ends up holding the shit bag, but who cares? I’ve got mine.

AI coding is just the latest spin on this age-old practice.

The code:

Omg his company sells one of those meeting notes bots

I’d bet everything I own that they leak sensitive information from some company within the next couple of months.

This product will 100% have more security holes than a sieve

… I’m starting to think I need to take up freelance pentesting

red flag number 1: measuring progress in lines of code