A field guide that also covers why we need to rethink our expectations, and what software engineering really is. A guest post by software engineer and engineering leader Addy Osmani
I’d say a lot of this isn’t really sustainable. Also you need to strike some balance. The senior devs also can’t spend substancially more time correcting the AI’s mistakes. I mean AI time is practically for free. But if that weighs down on the senior devs, they’re the ones with a decent salary. It has to make them more efficient, or in the end it’ll be more expensive.
Also same applies to the rest of the world. Sure we’d need to change how junior/senior works. But I’d argue we’d also need to change the whole society if entry level jobs and low income jobs get replaced by machines. I mean these people need food on their tables, too. So we’d really need to change workplace hierarchy, education, plus the entirety of how salaries and income works.
I’d say a lot of this isn’t really sustainable. Also you need to strike some balance. The senior devs also can’t spend substancially more time correcting the AI’s mistakes. I mean AI time is practically for free. But if that weighs down on the senior devs, they’re the ones with a decent salary. It has to make them more efficient, or in the end it’ll be more expensive.
Also same applies to the rest of the world. Sure we’d need to change how junior/senior works. But I’d argue we’d also need to change the whole society if entry level jobs and low income jobs get replaced by machines. I mean these people need food on their tables, too. So we’d really need to change workplace hierarchy, education, plus the entirety of how salaries and income works.