These last ten years I was really enjoying what Microsoft and its .NET teams were doing. Felt like a good community to be a part of. Huge strides to make things run anywhere and be more involved with the open source community.
While that hasn’t necessarily gone away, jamming LLM’s into everything is leaving a real sour taste. Pointless copilot button anywhere and everywhere. VS and VSCode pushing the GitHub copilot chats and agents.
We are quickly back to the corporate MSFT that doesn’t listen to its users or employees. All that good will has been washed away and now I feel the need to switch off of Windows.
Yeah, and it moreso moves a lot of your work over to other important stuff.
Namely, planning things better, reading, documenting, and coming up with more specific scenarios to test.
Before, because Id spend an extra chunk of my time on that 90%, maybe my documenting would be mid at best, stuff would slip through, my pile of “I prolly should get around to documenting that stuff” keeps growing and growing.
And then while maybe I can vaguely think “yeah I bet theres edge cases for this stuff I didnt make tests for”, its followed by “But I dont got time for that shit, I have to have this done by end of day”
Meanwhile with LLMs, I can set it off to cook on that 90% chunk of work, and while it’s cooking I can chat with another LLM instance and back-and-forth iterate on “what are some possible gotchas in this logic, what are edge case scenarios to test?” and by the time the agent finished coding, I have like 20 edge case test to copy paste over to it “Hey, make tests for all these cases, make sure those all work as expected <big copy paste of scenarios and expected outcomes>”
It shifts my focus over from just monkey work to stuff that matters more, finding and poking holes in the code, trying to break it, making sure it withstands stress and edge cases, and finding possible gaps and flaws in it.
When you focus like that, you definitely become way more productive.
As opposed to people who just give up and, yeah as you said, just are lazy, they hand off the work to the LLM but arent making up for that by redirecting the energy to other places of value, they’re gonna go, I dunno, run a raid in WoW or something fuck knows.