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> cant seem to convince anyone that we are useful I wonder if the issue there isn’t AI but that a lot of jobs (including in tech) are bullshit and it turns out
by Nextgrid 9mo ago
> cant seem to convince anyone that we are useful
I wonder if the issue there isn’t AI but that a lot of jobs (including in tech) are bullshit and it turns out it doesn’t matter how well it’s being done.
AI absolutely fails where quality is a requirement… but if it’s not then AI appears to be a good stand-in for a human. This was the case pre-AI too, plenty of mediocre developers were able to coast because the outcome of their work didn’t actually matter.
> most promotions are in non-SDE fields too
They’re just better at playing politics and maybe you should start too.
- falloutx 9mo agoThats definitely possible that a lot of dev jobs were just surface level and I would argue that if 90% of the feature dev is halted tmrw, you wouldn't even notice it for atleast couple years. This is why IBM and Oracle can still coast without having any new ideas. Lets even imagine 50% of the devs were never good enough, but that would still be less fluff any other field except labor. It always feels like we get held accountable for every little lapse, but higher up PMs, execs never get any consequences for their actions. They could run the company to the ground and still get promoted. If the top is incompetent, you cant really expect the bottom to be carrying all the weight.