"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

@tante well that was f’ing bleak. And they’re trying to do it to my non-technical but nevertheless SME team of CAPA specialists. Let them use AI to write Five Whys. Let them us AI to judge if the record is compliant. Let them write their self evils and goals using AI agents. What could go wrong? Except that doesn’t teach you what good looks like or how to write a rationale. AI can’t write a rationale; it can write things that look like one, that’s what it’s good at. But rationales rely on good thinking.

I’m just hoping we outlive this idiotic AI bubble but I’m afraid it may be here longer than that.

I’m afraid of interviewing for a new job, should a good opportunity come up, because I know they’re gonna ask how I feel about AI or how I’ve used it to solve problems in the past. And all I’ve got is, there are good applications of AI but I feel we need to look for the problems and then consider AI to solve them, rather than try to apply AI as a solution to every problem. And if they’re bought in to the lie, IDK how that will go.