but but, you can do whatever you want?

I've had limited experience (n~20) but no... that's not how it worked for me, interested in others' experiences.

"flying" was limited. I didn't have full control and sometimes felt dynamically pinned to the top of a 2D scrolling video game as if there were driver incompatabilities.

drifting off to sleep in a session, it was very disturbing- i felt like i was being dragged by my ankle across the bed before lucid dreaming began, "here it comes..."

Sometimes there would be ominious sounds/visuals that I could not influence that scared me so much I was glad I could wake up because it felt like a nightmare was approaching.

Two big tells I'm lucid dreaming: I'm with a group of people who can't answer a very obvious question ("why is the sky blue?") or, I look at my hand - as if it were LLM it absolutely does not render well... like a tree trunk with a bunch of branches.

> I'm with a group of people who can't answer a very obvious question ("why is the sky blue?")

Super interesting, because I have the same thing. Also none of my technology works. I usually try to do something on my phone a few times, fail because the UI is putty, and then remember that smartphones don’t work in my dreams.

Well, yeah. But it's what you want in the moment which can be very unpredictable even when you're "guiding" the dream. The subconscious is still in the driver's seat there and can go to some weird, wacky places.

I thinknm we are missing one scenario - sometimes with their practically unlimited money they just buy something to destroy it

Are you spanish and never went to another country? I only heard such things from never-stop complaining locals that never traveled anywhere. Yeah La Liga is a religion here, but Spain is one of the worlds top of life quality mate

The salaries and unemployment are pretty awful though. As are the working conditions in many jobs (jornada partida, paying less than legally required into social security etc.)

I think most people care more about these things than the GDP statistics tbh.

You most likely are arguing with a right winger from Spain. They compare the president with a dictator in their right wing media, and they basically talk about Spain like is Venezuela at every opportunity.

nice example: Find all TODO spin the AI machine

i do shift ctrl F

But you want for it to be usefull and do things

Lets go back to waterfall even harder and write the super correct and detailed design doc.

You jest but this is precisely what we have done. Our customers have downright rejected SCRUM. It is considered a waste of money.

At a recent AI workshop management made clear that they see AI as rendering sprints and scrums obsolete, that Kanban makes a lot more sense, and that estimating effort/story-points is also becoming meaningless. Which is a strong silver lining if you ask me.

I want to understand how AI leads to this outcome.

I think it's to do with the bottleneck shifting away from code generation and towards specifying and reviewing and integrating code. The process of working with AI agents to produce specs, tech specs, code, and reviews lends itself more to a flow-based structure (like kanban).

Bear in mind this is a B2B enterprise company with a mix of legacy and greenfield. And management has invested heavily into designing a robust spec/context-based workflow for using agents. Might be different elsewhere.

Personally I don't think scrums, planning, retros etc were better than kanban even before AI, at least if you have switched-on, motivated and smart people on your team. They actually made things less agile, and story-points give a false sense of predictability. Imo the crucial factor may be that AI agents are smart and switched-on (with the right context).

Its a good excuse to move away from a shitty process, I'll take it! Fuck SCRUM, fuck Agile. No one was doing it anyway. I had to quit an Agile job because I was shipping shit without ever getting a lick of feedback, and this was not some webdev low stakes work, it was for planning expensive real world installations.

Well, orders for both come from the same place

No questions. It will be pasted into their AI tool. And things will be great. For few weeks at least until something break a nobody will know what

> How do I feel, about all the code I wrote that was ingested by LLMs? I feel great to be part of that, because I see this as a continuation of what I tried to do all my life: democratizing code, systems, knowledge. LLMs are going to help us to write better software, faster, and will allow small teams to have a chance to compete with bigger companies.

You might feel great, thats fine, but I dont. And software quality is going down, I wouldn't agree that LLMs will help write better software

> I wouldn't agree that LLMs will help write better software

Your statement makes no sense.

Even if you don't let LLMs author a single line of your code, they can still review it, find edge cases you didn't think about or suggest different approaches.

The fact that AI allows lots of slop, does not negate its overall utility in good informed hands.

The balance between 'find edge cases' and 'hallucinate non-existing cases and waste your time' may be negative. LLMs are also not free, they cost significant money even today, when they are subsidized by marketing budget.

Even an hallucinated non-existing case (which isn't the norm in my experience) is still food for thought.

It was already shown repeatedly in GitHub repositories in the last year that authors are really unhappy with AI generated pull-requests and test cases.

I am not invested in anything, I am merely sharing my personal experience.

A tarot layout is also a food for thought, but it's free ang gives your eyes a break from a computer.

> software quality is going down

Is there some metric for this?

Have you looked around you? Windows, macOS... there's terrible quality software everywhere and it's only getting worse.

To be fair, it's been getting worse since before LLMs were a thing.

That is capitalism capitializing. I sorta think it is also the computer going from a geek toy to mass adoption and incentives changing. 3D printers for example are good but if they go mainstream they'll become like HP 2D printers on the enshittification axis

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