It’s an interesting world where the highest paid and most senior engineers in FAANG have fully embraced using tools like Claude Code and software novices have adopted vibe coding tools like Cursor but there’s a strong midtwit style resistance in the middle arguing that AI tools are just hype.
@carnage4life The "highest paid and most senior engineers" are likely more like management roles where they've been long detached from working with code and suddenly feel empowered to micromanage rather than depending on actual engineers to do things below a high architectural level. Their opinions are not telling you what you think they're telling you.
not to mention that the "highest paid and most senior engineers in FAANG" are the people responsible for shit like "loading bars on websites" and "advertising on the start menu"

good judgment has never been a selection factor for these roles, and I'm not really surprised that AI slop is indistinguishable from the code they were writing before

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