just recently lost a principal engineer that built an entire platform over the last four years.
just before they left I noticed they were using AI an awful lot. like…a lot a lot. like, “I don’t know the answer on a screen share so I’ll ask ChatGPT how to solve the problem and copy/paste it directly into the environment until it works” a lot.
they got fired for doing non-related shit.
it’s taken us three months, hundreds of hours from at least 5 other principal engineers to try to unravel this bullshit and we’re still not close.
the contributions and architecture scream AI all over it.
Point is. I’ll happily let idiots destroy the world of software because I’ll make fat bank later as a consultant fixing their bullshit.
There’s also the tribal knowledge of people who’ve worked somewhere for a few years. There’s always a few people who just know where or how a particular thing works and why it works that way. AI simply cannot replace that.
I work for a fortune 500 company.
just recently lost a principal engineer that built an entire platform over the last four years.
just before they left I noticed they were using AI an awful lot. like…a lot a lot. like, “I don’t know the answer on a screen share so I’ll ask ChatGPT how to solve the problem and copy/paste it directly into the environment until it works” a lot.
they got fired for doing non-related shit.
it’s taken us three months, hundreds of hours from at least 5 other principal engineers to try to unravel this bullshit and we’re still not close.
the contributions and architecture scream AI all over it.
Point is. I’ll happily let idiots destroy the world of software because I’ll make fat bank later as a consultant fixing their bullshit.
There’s also the tribal knowledge of people who’ve worked somewhere for a few years. There’s always a few people who just know where or how a particular thing works and why it works that way. AI simply cannot replace that.
Institutional knowledge takes years to replace.