This shit is scary. People don't know what's going to hit them.
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We already have armies of H1Bs writing shit code that's brittle as hell and soaked in bugs. Shipping today at a big tech org you and your services probably depend on.
Get ready for massive technological infrastructure failures on the levels never before seen. Think bank accounts getting corrupted, pacemakers on runaway, traffic lights with 2 million second wait times, hundred of warrants for various people all redirected and renamed to one poor soul, and more.
Hmm... you sure we're not already there?
Honestly that sounds like Boeing-level engineering.
The anti-shit-code revolution hasn't quite begun yet, but the pieces are moving into place. AI might replace shit code with shit code, but it isn't going to replace people who know what they're doing anytime soon.
And as someone whose job relies on developers programming competently, let them burn.
No one is going to replace the H1Bs because they are to well entrenched.
I can see the pushback but the H1Bs, mostly indians, stick together. Last year the company I work for added an indian guy on one of the infrastructure teams, one year later is almost entirely indian and actively keep non-indians away. Stuff like keeping them out of the loop, not sharing information, take forever to approve new permissions or accounts so that they underperform, create a system where they applaud each other for basic stuff. I've seen this behavior in the last 2 jobs. There is no stopping it once it starts.
This makes me feel even better about my decision to not hire the Indian guy based on his impenetrable accent a few years back.
That just means you can let underperformers go. And maybe achieve more with fewer competent workers.
Personally I think a lot of people that are in software don't belong there, but we really didn't need ChatGPT to push them out. The current wave of layoffs did that just fine.
Look out Mr. Buttle
Reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) story of the guy who registered "null" as a license plate and then received hundreds of parking tickets from cars without plates.