Hi, it’s me again. Long time no see.
If you haven’t guessed already, today we are talking about, you guessed it, AI. Maybe you can already guess where I am going by just that word. If you want, you can close the post right now.
All yours, as you are still in here, I believe you wanna more proper information on what the heck am I actually talking about. Isn’t it obvious? All of our people, the developer guys, and the shareholders, managers and the like, ALL of it, all just wanting fast shipping of features, no matter how.
Need to deploy to prod? Here, take this AI with the API keys with you! Need to deduct some change and rollback a new feature that was implemented? Oh well, too bad! Because nobody cares to know what was the previous state of the application, it was all vibecoded! We don’t even know where the failure points first presented themselves! Now we have a non-working product, geez!!
So, you see, all about 10x’ing things with Ai, especially on the development side seemed to have had its consequences. I mean, I don’t mean to be mean to AI in the general sense, of course it is a marvellous tool, invaluable in its billions of dollars and trying to wreak havoc and demise into our post-human society, it is just that we aren’t operating it correctly enough! What do we need? More layoffs!
And who is going to steer the wheel when things go south and the Ai forgot of our beloved prompt “make no mistakes”, huh? Oh, forget the damned thing, we have no wheel! We just have a kart, a few spare parts, the motor, and a downhill hill. Good, now just go! Forget about the breaks, they are not necessary here, all we care is SPEED! You get that? SPEED! They want shipping features fast! That’s all that matters to our corporate overlords. New products, more customers, fuck the User Experience.
Oh, wait, you mean to say that we need control? Control?! Who has time to think of control in this day and age? We are in the AI vibes, you get me? The vibes. And we need to ship! Because or competitor has a new product coming and we need to COMPETE with that to appraise our SHAREHOLDERS! And we…
Oh, Shut the fuck up, for fuck’s sake. Honestly….
Really, I believe that you are as assailed and burdened by all of this corporate bullshit as I am. Shall we raise hands together agreeing to this shit? Amen. thank you. So, as I was saying, Speed is nothing without control, and that is something that those pricks don’t seem to understand, and cannot understand that the pace in which we are developing things can’t keep up with the actual course of the (metaphorical) river.
Control is getting lost. And with it, there goes our hability to get to know the codebase, to troubleshoot and debug things, not to mention the security issues that now plague prod wherever you got.
But all they wanted to do was ship a product! They DID IT!
Oh, yo, please shut the f*ck up. Now we have irresponsible people going through development cycles and spreading PII of people into the wild thanks to their vibecoded apps. And then we have to hire engineer agains to fix the bugs and apply the patches. Congratulations, you outrageous amusement for speed was your own downfall when you didn’t even have any kind of control whatsoever on what the heck it was that you were shipping. Maybe you jusst didn’t care, and now it is why you deserve to crash and burn.
That, that is what happens when you just focus on speed, regardless of the kind of control you are keeping it with. Inevitably, it will crash, it is just a matter of time and finding the metaphorical U turn or the like.
So as you can imagine, now people are total absent in the consideration of control, as if it was never necessary or merely a nuisance, and gosh, how it pisses me off that we have to always be on the deadline to deliver a product as fast as possible and things start going sideways, drifting until they collapse and hit a wall. Then people started wondering where thing went wrong!
Bro, things STARTED going wrong right from the friggin’ beginning, when you set totally dream-lunatic expectations on delivering something that was undeliverable within that time frame. So then we will, of course, speed-race into our demise, because we have to deliver, no matter what.
Congratulations, what a bunch of pricks.
Sad story of this part is that I still need to be inside of this freaking hamster wheel to pay my bills.
What a time to be a-live folks, what a time!
Paece, brothers and sisters.