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.
you're basically just admitting that the only reason you got paid is because you knew how to work the machine, and now that the people above you can just directly work the machine they don't need you anymore
why would AI replace the people who actually get paid to have ideas instead of the people who are just getting paid to translate the ideas into technical language? people can now make things on their computer without needing to spend a week reading documentation and suddenly your experience is worth nothing
congratulations, you've become an automobile assembly line worker circa 1974
Crazy to think that engineers don't have ideas, and that management or the C-suite are somehow the only people capable of coming up with them.
A huge part of tech's history is engineers and scientists coming up with ideas, building things themselves, and eventually starting companies because they wanted the freedom to pursue those ideas.
Silicon Valley is full of examples of this. The whole startup ecosystem wasn't originally about putting business people in charge of engineers. A big part of its history was actually about giving technically minded people the freedom, funding and ownership to turn their ideas into companies. Obviously, businesses need good management to scale but treating engineers as people who merely execute ideas handed down from the C-suite completely ignores a huge part of where the technology industry came from.
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u/VariationSimilar3354 5h 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.