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This makes no sense outside of SV. If you work in the broader corporate world, your heads-down work may typically be writing software, but you're really more l
by sublinear 2mo ago
This makes no sense outside of SV.
If you work in the broader corporate world, your heads-down work may typically be writing software, but you're really more like staff IT. You get promoted into some kind of management role like "architect" and end up owning all the implementation instead of just the code.
You get passed the football a lot because that's more effective teamwork. You have weight in meetings because the business is smart enough to realize you are not just writing code. Your maintenance is basically all the operations short of the accounting and client manager stuff for that project.
AI is irrelevant unless you're really feeling a time crunch and have little alternative. Nobody cares how you do it. The meetings are a way bigger deal than the code. These types of devs are the equivalent of a bureaucrat who can sign off on a construction job and then grab a shovel.
This is the actual "future" of dev work... ahem it looks a lot like the past and present for everyone else.
- cognitiveinline 2mo ago> AI is basically irrelevant unless you're really feeling a time crunch and have little alternative Which is all of our industry. You're lucky if you're in a pocket outside of timr crunch.
- sublinear 2mo agoI'm just describing what an actual career looks like beyond the first 5 years of grinding away at a startup and then giving into "the man" or whatever. I guess it's true that corporate doesn't like hiring junior devs, but I'm not sure it was ever any other way. I'm not seeing where the fire is at. Corporate won't pay you SV wages either, but it's still respectable six-figures. You probably don't get stock either, but everyone gets a management bonus unless they're contractors. This is just basic middle america and it's the vast majority of the workforce. I'm not trying to piss anyone off when I say this, but all the scifi doomer shit is wildly out of touch and preys on the inexperienced. You should question who is behind it.
- cognitiveinline 2mo agook, explain a potential day in the life of this senior, where they are not required to code with AI.
- sublinear 2mo agoI'm clearly not going to convince you with that attitude, but hopefully others reading can benefit from the long view.
- cognitiveinline 2mo agofwiw, I was challenging you because your assumptions are not at all what I see around in teams across companies I work with. so was taking the other side and trying to probe further.