Sorry Peter. — I’m at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there’s always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren’t you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.
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Some good thoughts on this piece(towards the end), but plenty of unnecessary rambling.
TL;DR: programming sucks because people rushed towards AI and threw away the apprenticeship process, the experienced people with special institutional knowledge that keeps the engine running either got fired, left, grew old or died.
The “there are no more juniors” part genuinely hit hard. Everyone is busy discussing whether AI will replace developers, but very few are talking about what happens when companies stop producing future senior engineers altogether.
The author is clearly a gifted writer, one can enjoy the article without necessarily agreeing with the ideas presented.
It is sad to see the industry destroying itself by generating so much slop in the name of “productivity”. Even worse, next generation of programmers won’t be able to write a medium size piece of code without training wheels and without paying tribute to the AI overlords.
Yup. 100% agree.
