Christopher Neugebauer3d ago

RE: https://wandering.shop/@offby1/116341713293151884

the linked piece is excellent: tl;dr, better argued than I can: the risk of agents in "intellectual" fields is giving you freedom to choose which of the steps in work you want to skip doing yourself. Knowing what you can personally skip (given the option) is what you earn from a career of learning and re-learning.

Show threadChristopher Neugebauer
This is what upsets me about the "enthusiastic junior engineer" explanation. The value in mentoring an enthusiastic junior engineer is that you'll have a capable senior engineer at the end of it.
Apr 3 at 5:42pmWeb
Show threadarclight3d ago
@chrisjrn I've had this conversation at work with a few people. It would be nice to have a machine take care of some of the mostly-rote tasks. Rhat would relieve schedule pressure but it would kill us in the long term as we lost senior staff to burnout, turnover, and promotion. It's pulling the ladder up and cutting our own throat in the process. But if you're an MBA who has no immediate contact with the technical work and has been brainwashed into seeing permanent staff as a liability, you'll absolutely fuck over the enterprise for a few bucks and feel absolute justified in doing so. These are the same people who will be surprised that the organization is falling apart in 18 months and that they can't hire anyone to fix it.
Show threadgenehack3d ago

@chrisjrn ….maybe.

(This is my meta-upset at yadda yadda.)