alt Hacker NewsAh yes, we must force these obstinate engineers to the right path! Only after getting everyone to see the light will they understand and thank us for boundless productivity!! /s
Perhaps these “obstinate” engineers have good reason in their decision. And it should be their decision!
To be so confident in what is “the right way (TM)” and try to force it onto others is... revealing.
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Engineers that didn't move past src.v35.final.zip version control don't really have jobs today, either.
I ran the statistics myself and my company is spending 40% less time doing feature development since AI agents began to be used en masse and pushing 50% more tickets without any noticeable increase in regressions.
After 18 months the hard evidence is in place. And much like replacing bare-metal servers for many use cases where evidence shows that the burden of k8s or the substitution of shell scripts for Terraform, it's time to move on.
I don't really see a place for no AI usage in line-of-business software apps anymore.
Around the turn of the century there were the same exact arguments being made about automated testing (not just TDD, but any automated tests at all!)