Episode 533: I'm drowning in AI slop from lazy coworkers
Soft Skills Engineering

Episode 533: I'm drowning in AI slop from lazy coworkers

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 202633 min
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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hey Dave and Jamison. I don’t know what to do with the amount of the AI slop I have to review and I’m getting close to burnout. I have a lot of context on my project, so my colleagues see me as a point of reference. Additionally, at a past job, I was a tech lead and could easily cover for TL if I wanted to (which I don’t) and I feel like the TL of my project and some of my tea...

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It takes more than typing deploy the app make no mistakes into bash by accident and finding out there's no deploy keyword. It'd be a great software engineer. This is episode 533 of the soft skills engineering podcast where I'm your host, Jameson Dance.

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I'm your host Dave Smith. Soft skills engineering is a weekly advice show about the non-technical things that that go into the technical field of software development like remembering syntax exists.

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Yeah. We don't care anymore. Am I the only one that loves that make-win-no mistakes is now a meme that gets appended to everything?

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