Jerason Banes / Architect of Convirgance

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Software engineering and management theory, Trying to save the world with better software. Founder of Invirgance.

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Jerason Banes / Architect of Convirgance @ClassicGamerTWR Aug 4

ORMs are Killing Your Performance 🔪

Watch my talk at Big Sky Dev Conf (BSDC) on the official Montana Programmers Youtube Channel to learn how selecting an ORM affects your application performance.

(Repost to switch to official channel for BSDC talks)

youtu.be/2DaRGRe4Ow4?si…

www.youtube.com Jerason Banes – ORMs are Killing Your Performance | Big Sky DevCon... Jerason Banes looks beyond the usual ORM complaints to expose their...

Jerason Banes / Architect of Convirgance @ClassicGamerTWR 7h

The lack of juniors is going to be a problem. But I struggle with the fact that most of the juniors I’ve met in the last two years have been woefully unprepared for the industry.

It’s not just that we’re failing to educate them properly. (We’re absolutely are.) It’s that they don’t have any real interest in the craft. You try to talk to them about their personal projects and they tend not to actually have any.

Not that they don’t have some example app or some schoolwork checked into GitHub. They definitely have that.

I mean that they haven’t tried playing with the computer and see where they could push it.

In my day, we made video games. Or operating systems. Or tried to figure out a clever way to render a GUI faster. Or try to deliver apps like HTML pages but as serialized Java Swing components. Or make in-memory objects automatically persist to the database. (I came to regret that one. 😅)

I don’t see anything like that from this generation. They’re not coming up with a clever way to make an LLM Rickroll (or 6-7?) someone. They’re not experimenting with compiling a native app to WASM. They’re not making a video game. (Always a classic!)

They’re not, really, doing anything of interest. They just… want a job.

And that’s kind of a problem. Because I want to hire them and teach them. But I keep finding that they quietly push everything off onto ChatGPT and fail to learn. They think they’re succeeding when they’re actually failing miserably.

Is anyone else noticing this pattern?

John Crickett Verified account @johncrickett 9h

My prediction for software engineering over the next 3 to 5 years: the industry will come to regret not hiring junior developers.

Organisations are treating junior engineers as a cost they can eliminate with AI, ignoring the fact that developing engineers is an investment in talent we’ll need tomorrow.

In the next 3 to 5 years, the losers will be companies that eliminate junior positions to cut costs. They'll find themselves competing for a shrinking, and therefore, increasingly expensive, pool of experienced engineers.

The winners will be companies that continue investing in junior engineers, and who continue to provide them opportunities to grow, with clear retention strategies.

And for a while, the engineering consultancies that invest in training junior engineers will benefit massively. As those who struggle to staff their projects pay the consultancies a premium for experienced talent.
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Jerason Banes / Architect of Convirgance @ClassicGamerTWR 13h

It really is that simple. LLMs can’t actually code. They can only regurgitate patterns they’ve seen.

Given that the bulk of their training is mediocre at best, finding that an LLM codes better than you do is just outing yourself.

Glitchbyte Verified account @0xglitchbyte 1d

If ai writes better code than you, you have skill issues.

Its that simple.
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Jerason Banes / Architect of Convirgance @ClassicGamerTWR 1d

Amazon’s paper says you should lay out the structure of the code to get a better result. Getting closer…

Andrei Maxim Verified account @rockatanescu 3d

Amazon researchers recently published a paper which I think is notable considering that Amazon has put a lot of effort into spec-driven development.

The paper argues that specifying how a model should implement a specific solution is significantly superior to writing prose.

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Jerason Banes / Architect of Convirgance @ClassicGamerTWR 1d

> shocking that software engineering has transitioned to 100% AI written in such a short time

That’s how you know it’s a fad. Sort of like when everyone went RUP. Or everyone used UML. Or everyone needed Big Data.

You’re going to see a lot of this walked back in the next few months, after which a much healthier relationship with these tools will develop over time.

Ryan Dahl Verified account @rough__sea 2d

it's shocking that software engineering has transitioned to 100% AI written in such a short time.

it's more shocking that somehow we, the SWEs, are all just continuing on as if nothing happened. It writes C++ better than I ever could, but the problem of making sure it works didn't magically disappear. we are just shipping enormously more volume at higher quality.
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