Post by @yosh@toot.yosh.is

@yosh@toot.yosh.is

2026-03-07 12:32 UTC

Now granted: what us practitioners believe generally matters less than what the people controlling the purse strings believe. If the tech job market contracts, it affects all of us. But I think there's going to be a through-line here. If producing code becomes cheap, then planning and review become more important. Which can be rephrased as: "specification and verification will become more important" — "What should we do?" and "Did we in fact do that?"

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@yosh@toot.yosh.is 2026-03-07 12:43

To keep posting this assorted collection of thoughts that I'm trying to pass off for a thread: I believe that LLMs lower the bar for fucking around. And in doing so it increases the amount of finding out. That can be taken as either good or bad. Because one person’s “slop by the bucket” is another person’s “exploratory programming”.

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@paddyduke@mastodon.social 2026-03-07 15:09

@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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