AI was supposed to empower junior developers. In reality, it has become a tool that makes seniors more valuable while exposing the gaps in software culture.
It is absolutely ridiculous. Folks like me with two decades plus of experience in massive scale deployments and scalable architectures can basically take a mini retirement right now. Because we know well that in 2 years we’ll have so many messes to clean up that it will be a seller’s market in the high-skilled engineering and architecture roles.
These companies are all dropping half billion dollar projects run by groups of Juniors who will never learn how to be seniors by the time these fragile platforms start falling apart.
It is absolutely ridiculous. Folks like me with two decades plus of experience in massive scale deployments and scalable architectures can basically take a mini retirement right now. Because we know well that in 2 years we’ll have so many messes to clean up that it will be a seller’s market in the high-skilled engineering and architecture roles.
These companies are all dropping half billion dollar projects run by groups of Juniors who will never learn how to be seniors by the time these fragile platforms start falling apart.
Aye, and it’s not limited to software development either. I’ve always seen generative AI as a way of augmenting knowledge, not replacing it.