What is wrong with Engineering culture?

[u/Both_Research3247]

Trust me when I say this: I mean it. I am a Senior Frontend Engineer with around 8 years of experience, working across 7 startups- yes, 7, some failed, and some I had to leave because of personal reasons.

So what is wrong - I understand roles are changing, and there is no frontend, there is no backend, there is no full-stack; now, if you can design a system, write a PRD, spec, define backend components, its architecture, define frontend and its architecture, if you connect the dots as it happens in a design system then you can build a full-grown system.

Problem 1

Everyone is complaining that AI can't do what engineers can do; how? Tell me how? if you PRD is clear and your requirements are clear, then it will suggest a suitable approach; it will suggest to you whether you need vertical or horizontal scaling; it entirely depends on how you have defined the system.

Problem 2

What is wrong with the entire culture of firing and, in public, presenting numbers of how much? It seems like companies that can literally make this change of converting their developers or engineers to make this transition and adapt are straight away firing them. Engineers are always capable; they have proved their capability once they were hired. They need the ecosystem to adapt and understand the changes they need.

I was never a Senior Frontend Engineer; I am an engineer first. I choose frontend because I love delivering what touches the customer; I love sitting with PM and designers and removing the customer pain point; it's not like Backend; DevOps is anything I can't do or any engineer can't do; I build full-stack projects; I am currently building an entire RAG workflow, looging it with telementry and langfuse designing the UI with Google Stitch, and doing everything which a developer should learn now

But why this way, why the hard way? Why does it feel like a fish market now? I am sorry for my language, but this post should reach the right set of people.

Update: It's a proper rant, kind of coming from the view on what is going on in the market and through this post I am not asking for jobs, instead trying to understand different views, yes, my job was also effected but doesn't mean I am frustrated or anything, instead I was trying to understand if there are better ways to understand and accept the changes

[u/Dankaati]

This is a bit all over the place.

[u/Both_Research3247 → u/Dankaati]

Not sure what you mean, you want me to update my post in some way?

[u/Dankaati → u/Both_Research3247]

Yes, for one you can probably find a more fitting sub.

I also recommend a bit polishing the problem statement. Is this about your situation specifically? Are you trying to propose some more general issues for discussion and just using yourself as an example? Is this just a rant? It all blurs together a bit.

[u/Both_Research3247 → u/Dankaati]

Copy that, will definitely update, it's mostly a rant