bignose<p>There is *so much* pressure on my team [0], to use these <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> slop generators for *something*. Not enough, more. Use it more!</p><p>Oh you have a problem, have you tried spending the week trying to get <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> we pay for to do it? Oh, I see the <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/CoPilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoPilot</span></a> license we assigned to you hasn't been used for a few weeks?</p><p>And yes, we're already into the weeds of "this problem was probably caused by someone using an LLM to generate it last month"</p><p>but leadership don't want to hear they've paid huge fees to <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> to license an <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/ArtificialStupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialStupidity</span></a> that is slowing us down with unaccountable <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/AISlop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AISlop</span></a> code.</p><p>Goes hand in hand with measuring "lines of code" and "number of commits" for each worker, instead of problems solved and features delivered. Those LLMs sure can generate lines of code!</p><p>[0] and, I have to assume, all teams doing <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/SoftwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareDevelopment</span></a> at my employer</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@veronica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>veronica</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/AnyMetricBecomesATarget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnyMetricBecomesATarget</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/TayloristTyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TayloristTyranny</span></a></p>