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.

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.

@chrisjrn ….maybe.

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