> Coding is solved. Engineering is not. Catch up or be left behind.

I'm pretty certain SOTA is better than you at engineering. It's gonna be a real shock to your system when you finally acknowledge to yourself that you are nothing more than an expensive proxy to an LLM.

I basically only use Fable and no it isn’t. Might I suggest that if you think it is you’re just projecting your own insecurity on others. Coding isn’t engineering.

Your boss isn't shortly going to say the same about you? Fable is better than you at engineering.

I basically only use Fable, and no it isn’t. Coding isn’t engineering.

"Software Engineer" is a thing.

Not here in Canada, nor many places where Engineer is a protected term.

Yes here in Canada, plenty of Software Engineers, P.Eng

Do you think software engineers just write code or something?

I would bet good money that the vast majority of people who have some variety of "software engineer" as their job title mostly just write code, yes

The concept of software engineer is so watered down at this point it often barely resembles engineering at all

In Canada engineering is a regulated term and if you aren’t licensed you can get in serious trouble calling yourself one.

source: I am licensed.

Yeah. My job title at work is technically Software Engineer and it makes me a little uneasy because I am not licensed

But I don't call myself an engineer at all. I'm a software developer through and through. My employer calls me an engineer for some reason through

Yes it is. It'll write a better doc at any level for any task you may do. If you're not able to see that, you just don't know how to give the context right.

Claude writes technical word salad that people hate reading. It’s writing docs nobody looks at and nobody cares about.

Technical writing is a skill just like any other form of writing and if you’re bad at it that’s on you.

People despise AI slop novels and they also despise AI slop technical documents.

I can't imagine what level of monkeys you've been working with when you can't even imagine a human writing better docs than Claude. Disturbing, frankly.

You need to take a step back from the "it's always better than you" because you're making objectively false statements based on delusion.

> You just don't know how to harness it with the right context maybe.

Him placing this at the end of all his statements is just screaming, it takes an engineer to get a nicely engineered product. admitting defeat in his own statements over and over, kinda funny.

Honestly it sounds like you don't know what you're talking about.

> Good riddance.

> Coding is solved. Engineering is not. Catch up or be left behind.

I'm really grateful for my company's culture. Reading replies like this, I remember how easy it is to forget how atrocious that can be elsewhere. Thanks for the perspective and reminder.

how do you mean? surely you're paid for delivering product not coding? if it is the latter, I too would love to be paid for recreational coding

You misunderstood my reply. I'm talking about culture, not engineering or coding.

I'm just grateful I don't work with people that say "good riddance" to blanket foreign talent bans, and "catch up or get left behind" to fellow engineers.

That doesn't sound like a nice place to work? Is all I'm saying.

I don't think this is related to culture, it's just the internet nowadays. You need hot takes for engagement. That user probably runs with that mindset always on

That's fair. My internet bubble is intentionally very small.

TIL I’m (a Polish-Canadian) being racist because I don’t like the quality of the work Polish offshore developers my boss hired on the cheap.

Yeah, exactly.

Something not being the primary reason I'm paid does not imply that it's "solved". Personally, I enjoy working at a company where people have intellectual curiosity about varying viewpoints to ambiguous questions like "is coding solved?" rather than scolding people who don't adhere to the dogma as being "left behind".

To be clear, I use LLMs every day as part of my work pretty much entirely because my employer wants me to and has encouraged me to make them part of my workflow. They've managed to do that without anyone saying anything as aggressive as the parent commenter.

> My company has excellent culture.

> Zero tolerance

> We’re a business not a daycare

Okay man, I'm sure it's great.

You’d be suprised how often people rise to the occasion when you don’t treat them like children.

I don’t know why I can’t rely to the person below me so I’m editing:

We don’t admonish. It’s a mission statement and an up-front mutual understanding by all parties that you own your work end to end and you are accountable for it. You don’t even get an interview if you don’t agree. People that are offended by it don’t even bother applying. Excellent filter.

Treating people like adults means not admonishing them by saying things like "we're a business, not a daycare". Adults don't need to be informed that they're working a job because they already are aware. Talking down to people by saying things like that is pretty much the opposite of treating them like adults.

is it your business? do you own it?

Sure bud