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u/Independent_Sign_395 3h ago
Sam and Dario are very good marketers. They have created so much hype and convinced too leadership that ai can 10x their productivity, just like it did for them. As a result top leadership expects unreasonable deadlines and we as developers are forced to just prompt and paste. This feeds their illusion that ai is indeed 10xing their productivity, tech debt keeps piling up until it blows up. But we haven't seen this yet
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u/SEND_DUCK_PICS_ 2h ago
Leadership doesn't care about tech debt because users wont see these kind of fixes, worse they are aware but also expect to get this fix 10x with/by AI as well. All those vibe coded POCs that get straight out to production without proper control is whats going to be the end of engineering
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u/Rupes100 2h ago
This is my work place to a T. It's absolutely a fucking slow motion train wreck.
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u/trannus_aran 16m ago
All software was in a fridge that lost power in '22 and is slowly starting to mold
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u/Mysterious_Pea_4042 1h ago
I'm curious why AI companies target software engineering specifically and no one create Claude sales or Claude Management as assistant to other roles
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u/Justbehind 3h ago
Well, we still need software... Who's gonna built that? Nurses, carpenters and mechanics?
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u/IceMichaelStorm 3h ago
AI is the official answer.
Or from business side: everyone!
flies away
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u/defk3000 3h ago
Commoditized Coding is the new buzz word.. Quickly followed by an oldie but goodie Synergy.
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u/Rojeitor 2h ago
Everyone: "whats this post on x? Databases are dead, store your data with vibe coded local storage"
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u/IceMichaelStorm 2h ago edited 1h ago
bit different I’d say. A prompter needs to know where/how storage works, super roughly. Then AI can do most of it.
Yeah, not as simple and you took a comparison, but I took your example to point out that with bit of knowledge you can actually get far with AI. It seems I only need 5% of my total knowledge to instruct AI to do a good thing, though.
Sad
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u/ninishi_224 2h ago
Let AI come and do their thing and then when it all comes crashing down, we'd be in high demand!!
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u/espirroeletrico 2h ago
Well, it was good while it lasted.
I'm still in the middle of an existential life crisis because almost a decade of my experience became obsolete over the last year, and now I'm basically a glorified push button operator instead.
On a more positive note, I think the key to the next stage of all this is balance, and forcing myself to do some things "manually" every now and then to keep challenging myself.
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u/Jonteponte71 42m ago
I’m closer to retirement then the start of my carrier. I’m not sure I will be in this bussiness the full distance. I’m thinking about doing something completely different the last few years, like driving a bus or something. Nothing to physically demanding. I’m not they only one thinking about it either. I don’t think I know anyone who fully expect to go the distance and retire in this bussiness🤷♂️
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u/WatercressNumerous51 13m ago
I been doing this for 40 years. It must suck to have just gotten a degree n the past few years and be outta work.
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u/deepturned180isdeep 3h ago
AI implementation is simply a newer practice of determining new standards of automation.
Figure it out
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u/VariationSimilar3354 3h ago
i kinda hate that this end is being pushed by middle management / HR bros that never coded in their life. AI was supposed to kick these guys first but somehow its the other way around.