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I think a lot of people are feeling this, not just engineers. Engineering already has a high entry bar, and now with AI moving so fast, it’s honestly overwhelmi
by Fendy 1y ago
I think a lot of people are feeling this, not just engineers. Engineering already has a high entry bar, and now with AI moving so fast, it’s honestly overwhelming. Feels like there's no way to avoid it—we either embrace it, actively or passively, whether we like it or not.
Personally, I think this whole shift might actually be better for young people early in their careers. They can change direction more easily, and in a weird way, AI kind of puts everyone back at the starting line. Stuff that used to take years to master, you can now learn—or get help with—in minutes. I’ve had interns solve problems way faster and smarter than me just because they knew how to use AI tools better. That’s been a real wake-up call.
I’m doing my best to treat AI as a teammate. It really does help with productivity. But the world never stop changing, and that’s exhausting sometimes. I try to keep learning, keep practicing, and keep adapting. And yeah, if I ever lose my job because of AI... ok, fine, I’ll have to change and try getting another, maybe different job. Easy to say, harder to do—but that mindset at least helps me not spiral.
- skydhash 1y agoThe true value of experience comes in two ways: Knowing when not to do something; and knowing the shortest path to produce the result needed. More often, the result of juniors using LLM is a frankenstein ball of mud that is close to its implosion point. Individual features are part of a system and are judged based on how they contribute to its goal, not how they are individually correct.
- Fendy 1y agogreat point
- AstroBen 1y agoAnd a person's contribution to a business isn't their one-day or one-week productivity. Those juniors eventually learn how not to create that ball of mud.. well at least they used to If LLMs short circuit our growth as developers I can see the longer term quality and output being much worse than it was pre-AI
- rightbyte 1y agoI have no stamina left to rework how I do stuff in any fundamental way. Got way too burned out on my first two jobs trying too hard.