@petrillic I cannot tell if this is a shitpost or not but it's a thought I had, so, here you go:

senior engineers are a positive externality of an engineering process. the intellectual capital that accumulates in a senior engineer's brain can walk out the door at any time.

positive externalities represent uncaptured value, which is to say, reduced profit.

it is therefore the fiscal duty of any steward of a public company to prevent this process with LLMs.

@glyph @petrillic can’t tell if this is a shit post, but I hope so.

A sane group doesn’t manage its intellectual capital with shitty tooling, it does so by retaining senior engineers (which will leave regardless, as people age out of the workforce or even just a particular type of role) and developing junior engineers.