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We have a very successful company that has been running 30 years, with developers across 6 countries. We just make sure we hire developers who know that theyre here to do a job, on our terms, for which they will get paid, and its our way or the highway. If they dont like it, they dont have to stay. However, through doing this we have maintained a standard that our competitors fail at, partly because they spend their time tiptoeing around staff and their comforts and preferences.

>>Arthur+(OP)
Wow, you are really projecting the image a wonderful person to work for.

I don't doubt you are successful, but the mentality and value hierarchy you seem to express here is something I never want to have anything to do with.

>>Arthur+(OP)
Have you ever hired anyone for their expertise, so they tell you how to do things, and not the other way around? Or do you only hire people who aren't experts?

I don't doubt you have a functioning business, but I also wouldn't be surprised if you get overtaken some day.

>>barrke+97
Most of our engineers are hired because of their experience. They don't really tell us how to do things. We already know how to do it. We just want people who can do it. LLMs will hopefully remove this bottleneck.

>>Arthur+(OP)
and you happened to have created an account in hackernews just 3 months ago after 30 years in business just to hunt AI-sceptics?

>>postex+3a
I dont hunt 'AI skeptics'. I just provide a viewpoint based on professional experience. Not one that is 'AI is bad at coding because everyone on Twitter says so"

>>Arthur+bb
and you happened to have created an account in hackernews just 3 months ago after 30 years in business just to provide a viewpoint based on professional experience?

>>postex+ai
Yes, you're right I should have made an account 30 years ago, before this website existed, and gotten involved in all the discussions taking place about the use of ChatGPT and LLMs in the software development workplace