2026-03-07 15:09 UTC
@yosh@toot.yosh.is I don’t trust this argument because I hear it often in my own workplace, and yet the real effect of LLM coding has been the opposite.
Now that you don’t have to go via, and get feedback from, opinionated developers who may slow you down, we’re seeing a kind of “first idea best idea” pattern play out. Exec level folks can much more easily and quickly create artefacts that they inevitably get attached to, or even ship.
It’s “my daughter drew this logo idea” but for an entire code base.
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@yosh@toot.yosh.is 2026-03-07 16:06
@paddyduke@mastodon.social Yeah, that's sort of what I mean tho. Clearly the exec doesn't understand the value of the dev team and is happy to try and move past you. And that's going to work out *fine* at first – all the way until it doesn't. At which point people who can actually build and maintain systems will need to step in. Which sucks and is why I'm saying that this has an element that's out of the control of practitioners, and in the hands of capital.