The acceleration of agentic coding and the plummet in software quality & reliability aren’t two separate stories. They’re the same story. Even if a particular bug/problem can’t be traced back to a slop source, the proliferation of slop is itself a net drag on software teams and leads to overall deskilling and focus diversion.
We have a duty as industry professionals to fight back, say no, and make sure companies are aware this “new normal” is completely and utterly unacceptable.
As I alluded to, when that’s the case it’s still now agentic coding to blame because of the diversion of focus. Companies such as Microsoft, instead of improving their existing human-based craft, introduce literal roadblocks to the improvement of craft both in terms of time/resources and also in terms of corporate culture.
Maybe. But even if everyone banned AI instantly, the culture and (I’d argue) massive mismanagement problems aren’t getting any better.
Hence I think it’s iffy to attribute all these software problems to ‘AI’ so quickly, especially before it’s really had time to affect old systems like Microsoft Windows.
The acceleration of agentic coding and the plummet in software quality & reliability aren’t two separate stories. They’re the same story. Even if a particular bug/problem can’t be traced back to a slop source, the proliferation of slop is itself a net drag on software teams and leads to overall deskilling and focus diversion.
We have a duty as industry professionals to fight back, say no, and make sure companies are aware this “new normal” is completely and utterly unacceptable.
But these problems took off way before code assistants were common.
As I alluded to, when that’s the case it’s still now agentic coding to blame because of the diversion of focus. Companies such as Microsoft, instead of improving their existing human-based craft, introduce literal roadblocks to the improvement of craft both in terms of time/resources and also in terms of corporate culture.
Maybe. But even if everyone banned AI instantly, the culture and (I’d argue) massive mismanagement problems aren’t getting any better.
Hence I think it’s iffy to attribute all these software problems to ‘AI’ so quickly, especially before it’s really had time to affect old systems like Microsoft Windows.