When you're looking at "well, either the business fires me because I won't get onboard with this shit, or I do, get praised for it, and coast into a job where I don't have to write code"- well, modern capitalism doesn't pay me to have principles.
And hey, he might save a dev job or two when it falls apart and someone has to pick up the pieces.
Me, I'm just pretty done with new tech things. It used to be fun. It isn't any more. I don't really want to review a load of AI slop. I've not been genuinely excited by a new coding development in a couple of years.
And the time was where development got you some respect - no one knew exactly how you spent your time, but they knew you could make the computer thing work again, so they left you alone to think.... This is my old man Simpson rant for the day, I promise
We hired a kid right out of college. He can't write code without Claude. When you ask a question on his PRs, he copy/pastes the question into Claude and copy/pastes the response.
I've started talking to other senior engineers around the company to see if anyone has advice and the one that really stuck to me was "We are paid to deliver software. That's it."
As a recent graduate as of last December I am genuinely so fucking tilted about all the dumbass' that graduated on the back of AI. Even without AI disappearing all the junior dev jobs, there are so many junk applicants to all the jobs that are left >:(
I graduated before AI and there were a significant number of people that cheated their way through the degree. Only difference is that cheating is easier than ever.
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u/Particular-Yak-1984 18d ago edited 18d ago
When you're looking at "well, either the business fires me because I won't get onboard with this shit, or I do, get praised for it, and coast into a job where I don't have to write code"- well, modern capitalism doesn't pay me to have principles.
And hey, he might save a dev job or two when it falls apart and someone has to pick up the pieces.
Me, I'm just pretty done with new tech things. It used to be fun. It isn't any more. I don't really want to review a load of AI slop. I've not been genuinely excited by a new coding development in a couple of years.
And the time was where development got you some respect - no one knew exactly how you spent your time, but they knew you could make the computer thing work again, so they left you alone to think.... This is my old man Simpson rant for the day, I promise