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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I feel the need to scream into the void so here goes: my corpo job has certain execs that are very deep into the AI bs, and theyāve done a full tour of all the stages and iterations of AI hype, following all the new trendy tools because otherwise weād surely be left behind š«
And the current somewhat new hotness is spec-driven development. Iāve tried it over the last few days since it looks like itāll be mandatory for larger work.
And boy. Boy oh boy.
There are no words in the English language to describe how much I hated it. There may be some ancient curses in Rālyiehian that would do it.
The Copilot mandates were bad enough, but honestly if this is an attempt to make me see the light and admit that in itself Copilot isnāt that bad, then itās kinda working.
Itās justā¦ idk, I got into software dev because I like logic puzzles (and wanted the money, letās be real). I enjoy making a small thing and then slowly adding stuff to it. I do not enjoy sitting idly while the slopmachine writes a giant spec that I think Iām supposed to read and correct but canāt because itās unreadable. Itās like a textual white noise. Itās pretending to describe a piece of software I want to make while actually describing all the steps of a ritual to summon an Elder God of anxious boredom and machine madness.
I think Iāll be defining all of my work as small from now on.
Iāve never heard of this AI spec driven development, but Iāve had the displeasure of reading a few obviously AI generated design documents and they are worse than useless. I always end up more confused about what the author wants after reading them than before.
It is the worst and I want to retire.
Spec-driven development is when you take these AI generated design docs and make it all you as a dev interact with. Itās waterfall but make it stupid and AI.
You give AI some guidelines and a feature description, then you twiddle your thumbs while it generates giant specs and occasionally asks you for some inputs, then you attempt to read the thing, give up, and give it to some other agent. Rinse and repeat until you burn a GDP of a small country in tokens and the agents agree that itās going to work, and then you finally pull the lever and hopefully a feature matching all your specs appears. Or it doesnāt! And if it didnāt, itās surely your fault because you didnāt give AI enough context.
Iām tired, boss.