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When you're a software engineer, you deal with a lot of bullies. Managers who'd rather bully their employees than empower them. "Senior" engineers who are better at social engineering than writing code. Users who think their pet grievance is the most important thing on earth. The list goes on and on. And if there's one thing AI has done in the last year, it's to empower the bullies. Managers now feel justified in asking you why the project has taken so long. "Well, are you using AI?" Users who already felt entitled to our time and productivity now think they should have gotten it all yesterday because, "You could just use AI." ~~Senior~~ Bully engineers now have another way to invalidate the work of others with "I could probably do that with AI over a week-end." That guy who should be helping you but never wants to can blow you off with, "Well, did you ask ChatGPT?" as if that has actual answers. Of course, none of it is true. None of it has ever been true. Bullies have always been bullies. Manager expectations have always been unrealistic. The only difference is that they now have a trillion dollar industry and a whole social shift backing their behavior and the poor engineers who are just trying to get the work done have been handed a lame-duck tool and are expected to be grateful.