Alexander Goldovsky

@hazadus.bsky.social

Beckend developer

LLMs _can_ be used as skill multipliers but it’s up to YOU whether you choose to use them as a leverage for your own capabilities or whether you deskill yourself into a helpless slop slinger. 2/2

I fear we’re watching multiple generations to give up any kind of ambition to improve at whatever craft can be automated mediocrely by LLMs. Repeatedly pulling the prompt lever will never end in excellence. ESPECIALLY if the boosters are right, “prompting” is not a long-term valuable skill. 1/2

"The question is: why did I stop auditing when AI became the author?" Why would I let Claude merge a PR that I'd block immediately if a junior dev submitted it? AI didn’t invent bad patterns, but AI scaled them from occasional mistakes to systematic defaults; it amplified all our worst habits.

Stuart Robson@sturobson.com · 4mo ago

"Friday, I tried the experiment: let Claude build our component library from our team’s Figma file. Monday, I ran Lighthouse." Before: 187KB, LCP 1.2s, TBT 120ms. After: 524KB, LCP 3.4s, TBT 410ms. https://www.designsystemscollective.com/ai-built-it-in-1-hour-lighthouse-gave-me-43-6f88e5c23d6b

Stop making your job your personality. Pay your bills. Turn off your phone. Leave the spreadsheet in the cloud and go make dinner. You are not a commodity. You are not your engagement metrics. You are not your title or your side hustle or your carefully sharpened personal brand. You are a person....