AI usage generates a fragile codebase
I can only speculate as to the reasons why I was laid off from Meta in May, but I suspect that one of the reasons is that I was a little bit more resistant to adopting AI/LLMs as coding tools than some of my peers. Don't get me wrong, I generated at least 90% of my code using AI in my last few months there, which was the minimum for a decent rating. But AI didn't 10X the amount of code I was writing. It didn't even 2X it.
I was focused on code quality. I saw the code being pushed by some of my p...
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