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jennyholzer2last Thursday at 3:20 PM1 replyview on HN

LLMs have dramatically empowered sociopath software developers.

If you are sufficiently motivated to appear more "productive" than your coworkers, you can force them to review thousands of lines of incorrect AI slop code while you sit back and mess around with your chatbots.

Your coworkers no longer have enough time to work on their in-progress PRs, so you can dominate the development team in terms of LOC shipped.

Understand that sociopaths are skilled at navigating social and bureaucratic environments. A sociopath who ships the most LOC will get the promotion every single time.


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andy99last Thursday at 3:26 PM

Only if leadership lets them. Right now (anecdotally) a lot of “leaders” don’t understand the difference between AI generated and human generated work, and just look at loc as productivity so all incentives are on AI coding, but that will change.

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