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Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you
- fzeroracer 2y agoGreat article, I agree with most of what's written here. Companies are insanely quick to toss away junior engineers because they're afraid of needing to ramp people up or train them. Instead they try to externalize this cost, either by shoving more onto mid and senior engineers for the same pay or by outsourcing labor further. But it's absolutely unsustainable, companies don't understand that the codebase is composed of internal knowledge. Knowledge that once lost results in slower turnaround times and worse code. You see this happen every now and then where a company falls apart due to internal rot because they're not maintaining that knowledge by either training juniors or retaining seniors.
- dartos 2y agoI think that attitude is a result of the tech startup culture. Companies get founded and funded with the exclusive goal of being bought up by a bigger fish. Why spend time investing in the company’s long term future when the goal is to not exist in X years.