alt Hacker NewsOwnership of the delivered code. This takes authorship out of the equation -- doesn't matter who wrote it, only matters who owns it and can be blamed for it. Not having written it doesn't absolve blame when something goes bad.
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stvltvs • today at 1:56 PM
Ideally, but we know that LLMs will get the blame because of course they will.
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Ownership of something you have little control over is a great way to burn yourself out.
If you constantly have to push back against the eager puppy jr dev who’s 1000% sure their vibe slop is prod ready and has proudly told the admiring crowd of stake holders it’s ready to go, wtf kind of life is that? Now the senior/lead is the bad guy and is in the no win scenario.
Yuck.