greenowl

Language used has little to do with whether or not you will be employable in the future.

The actual determination is how involved are you in your company's product and business? Are you present in product / strategy / planning meetings? Are you able to contribute, make suggestions, answer questions instantly and accurately about current system architecture and direction? How and why the company should implement or tweak feature X - this way, instead of that way? Do you have a track record of being right?

Invert it. Write code yourself, have AI do the code reviewing. You'll have a much better understanding of what's actually going on.

Yeah that sounds awful. Sorry. I'd start looking for a new job.

Are they specifically mandating AI for writing code though? Just use your AI tokens for the other parts of the job.

Why not write the code yourself and use AI for everything you don't like to do? See what happens.

If the excavator breaks down on a job site does the operator get out, grab a shovel, and start digging?

And what happens when it becomes due?

No thanks, Toyota. We'll keep running our 20 year old Corolla (9th generation - if you know, you know)

Velocity to a paycheck

> What is sloppy code anyway?

Code that is overly and unnecessarily difficult and cumbersome for humans to work on.

But given the way humans work on code nowadays doesn't involve actually writing it themselves, there's no such thing as sloppy code anymore. Hooray!

Yeah man I think we just have experience in two different worlds.

A single digit headcount startup with a "company IT" team testing program updates before distributing them??? Um, no. You just download VS Code (or whatever IDE you want) on the Macbook they give you and it updates when Microsoft pushes a public update.

How did the developers react when they had to go back to writing their own code instead of playing Nintendo Switch between prompting sessions?

Kind of funny that currently the number 1 article is a Show HN for an AI vibe coded slop terminal program.

We've developed plenty of things that "work" and we don't understand exactly how or why they work, nor do we fully understand the potential for short term or long term consequences. For example: pharmaceuticals.

Are they really though? And if so, how much of that is due to the hyper growth in this specific space?

Meanwhile, the SWE job market across all companies seems pretty rough right now. Talk to someone looking for a job. Most companies seem to be in a holding pattern - little to no new SWE positions available.