So many efforts out there to alter the usage of the tool to regain control, when it's clear to me that the tool is the problem?
By which I mean, we should -- as software engineers -- be insisting on tools that put us in the driver's seat more.
Instead we're letting the agent drive. (I'm as guilty as this as anybody). But really we're letting Dario, Sam, Boris, etc. drive. And it should be clear from their public pronouncements and emissions that they don't have the best interests of our
profession -- or the quality of software engineering generally -- in mind.
Yes, certainly, alter how you use the tools. But we need to fix the tools themselves.
And by doing that said companies are devaluing their own IP and creating an organizational knowledge debt. Companies that work that way will in long run get outcompeted by shops that figure out (I don't know how) how to manage this better.
What's worse, companies might be fine with "devaluing their own IP", since companies are not deciding, execs are.
And those execs will get their bonuses anyway, and will be drinking their champagne far away from their executive roles and the company by the time that's felt.
By which I mean, we should -- as software engineers -- be insisting on tools that put us in the driver's seat more.
Instead we're letting the agent drive. (I'm as guilty as this as anybody). But really we're letting Dario, Sam, Boris, etc. drive. And it should be clear from their public pronouncements and emissions that they don't have the best interests of our profession -- or the quality of software engineering generally -- in mind.
Yes, certainly, alter how you use the tools. But we need to fix the tools themselves.