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*Reaction face thumbnail with a crown emoji on the book*

This is the new best book

-- YouTube literature influencers

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Oh no, I can't unread this

Cackle × 2

The sorts of large enterprises which immediately blocked access to ChatGPT when it appeared for fear of internal data being accessed/trained on are also only now getting around to (stupidly) forcing LLM usage by monitoring whatever they're now using and adding it to perf review processes

This can also apply to developers tackling tech they're not familiar with, in complex apps, with LLM usage robbing them of what should have been a chance to learn. This also affects code review as a chance to learn, what do you do with critique of complex code you never understood? Plug it back in

I was hoping this thread wouldn't end with another tiny vibe coded tool

I'm starting to see the results of people being encouraged to use LLMs, being given complex tickets in established projects, with tech where they clearly don't know how to tell good code/design from bad, and it's not pretty

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