Mii

I have tried and failed stopping the ensloppification of my company, and I have failed greatly. We now have a new policy that you have to write a justification for making a PR yourself instead of using the chatbot. All the strict checks that were implemented over the years (clear documentation, no more than x files per commit/PR, etc.) are out of the window. This comes after the push for a fucking AI audit where every employee is supposed to justify why they are not using LLMs for certain tasks. Also some person blew the token limit with some web scraping bullshit last cycle and was lauded for embracing the technology. Also our CEO has recently begun subtly insinuating he’s now heard of fucking AI doom cultists. I hate everything.

Oh look, it’s the motherfucker who thinks that rich people should have more votes and is best buddies with DHH. Why am I not surprised? (Aside: the company I work for uses Shopify and it became total horseshit over the last years. Guess this explains a lot.)

Our CEO is pretty much looking for any solution to explain that number doesn’t go up as much anymore (which surely has nothing to do with the shit economy and people not wanting to spend as much money), and we have a surprising amount of slopmongers in middle and upper management positions who whisper into his ear that AI will solve everything. Most of those policies and changes actually come from them.

That’s pretty much what I’m doing as much as it pains me (both because I dislike the idea of shoveling shit into a codebase I’ve maintained for years now, as well as knowing that doing so wastes tons of energy). They get their sloppy ticket solutions with the occasional warning just so that I can say I told you so when it will ultimately collapse.