They don’t even need to be pretty good. They just need to be better than the parade of absolute morons who couldn’t engineer their way out of a paper bag but think they are a Senior Developer because they managed to bluff their way through 3 years in an outspurcing company by cutting and pasting from Stack Overflow. They make up 90% of the software development workforce, and they are the ones that have been burning out the real Software Engineers since the day the first Bangalore development centre opened.
Thankfully, that bar has been crossed; AI is already at the level where you don’t have to explain to it what a semaphore is using stick figures and crayon - this is an absolute golden fucking era for senior engineers and architects.
Maybe because when they actually try them out they’re discovering that AI coding agents are pretty good?
They don’t even need to be pretty good. They just need to be better than the parade of absolute morons who couldn’t engineer their way out of a paper bag but think they are a Senior Developer because they managed to bluff their way through 3 years in an outspurcing company by cutting and pasting from Stack Overflow. They make up 90% of the software development workforce, and they are the ones that have been burning out the real Software Engineers since the day the first Bangalore development centre opened.
Thankfully, that bar has been crossed; AI is already at the level where you don’t have to explain to it what a semaphore is using stick figures and crayon - this is an absolute golden fucking era for senior engineers and architects.