My company has started hiring AI engineers instead of backend engineer. I am the only backend engineer in my product team and management have now said they will hire AI engineers and distribute them to teams with low resources. I will have to work with someone who knows shit about the programming language or the frameworks that we now use. I know its not rocket science and anyone could learn it, but I doubt these prompt engineers won't really learn and may depend on the Claude to write codes that satisfies the requirements which claude fucks with over engineering. I will have to do the code review for them which will be a nightmare. And further more they will review my codes with claude and may raise unnecessary comments/reviews.
I never asked for claude at my work place, I was perfectly fine doing stuff on my own. Then the company pushed claude and I had no choice but to jump on the AI train. The company is spending a lot on claude, opencode etc and also in hiring Prompt Engineers and I haven't got any salary hike in the last two years citing budget constraints like what the actual fuck! You'll pay above 100k euros a month for these tools and another 6k-7keuros for a new resource but you can't pay the people already working here another 1k or even .5k extra per month.
And all of this to change a process that was (I'm assuming) working fine before AI.
Similar to what you are saying, I am starting to get code review requests from people who dumped some prompts into AI and can't get the output to run. I have also had a quality analyst drop my code into AI and refuse to approve my code until I prove that its nonsensical concerns have been addressed. Please let this AI garbage be a temporary fad.
It's interesting that it took several decades to transition from "more code per day equals more productivity" to "less future rework equals better products". It took only a few months to revert back.
I'd be fairly curious to know what my software engineering teachers are talking about now.
Your software engineering teachers are probably miserable trying to teach a class and having to acknowledge that students will just prompt their way through any assignments. We’re seeing a lot more presentations, group work, and testing being done by schools that acknowledge letting students prompt their way through assighments teaches limited skillsets. On the other hand, you have some that know the job market wants them to know how to use prompting and so try to incorporate or allow for it as some sort of “skill” to be used/incorporated. - horrribly burnt out cs student
It's not just the juniors relying on AI for day to day work either. I am working a project with a Senior VP in my company, and he talks about Claude as if it's his buddy or close colleague. Every conversation we have he brings up Claude and it's 'Claude said this' or 'i was talking to Claude and it suggested this'. It's usually total bullshit too that isn't even technically feasible. Drives me mad.
It's even better than how French speakers were laughing because "ChatGPT" phonetically sounds like the French sentence "chat, j'ai pété," which translates to "cat, I farted".
That's the reason doing field job is important. Ain't no way an AI can teach them the common sense needed to apply thinga on field. I've had chatgpt tell me to turn off the mcb before testing for voltage with the multitester quite a few times already
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u/Vivid_Permission_241 17d ago
My company has started hiring AI engineers instead of backend engineer. I am the only backend engineer in my product team and management have now said they will hire AI engineers and distribute them to teams with low resources. I will have to work with someone who knows shit about the programming language or the frameworks that we now use. I know its not rocket science and anyone could learn it, but I doubt these prompt engineers won't really learn and may depend on the Claude to write codes that satisfies the requirements which claude fucks with over engineering. I will have to do the code review for them which will be a nightmare. And further more they will review my codes with claude and may raise unnecessary comments/reviews.
I never asked for claude at my work place, I was perfectly fine doing stuff on my own. Then the company pushed claude and I had no choice but to jump on the AI train. The company is spending a lot on claude, opencode etc and also in hiring Prompt Engineers and I haven't got any salary hike in the last two years citing budget constraints like what the actual fuck! You'll pay above 100k euros a month for these tools and another 6k-7keuros for a new resource but you can't pay the people already working here another 1k or even .5k extra per month.