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Those senior engineers became skilled by starting out as entry-level engineers who didn't know all that stuff, but learned from the senior engineers before them (and by writing a lot of bugs that hopefully got caught by code reviews.) Now, companies are using AI as an excuse not to hire entry-level people.
15 years from now, we will find there are no mid-level people to promote, because they never got their entry-level job and are now waiting tables.
I said it was effective at cranking out software, not at training the next generation of engineers. However obviously the terms of engineering are changing so it would also be a mistake to automatically think we should train them exactly as we did before. Some people saw compilers as the same thing: it’s an abstraction layer! How is anyone going to know what’s actually happening in the CPU anymore?! Well, they don’t actually need to.
Okay but how does that effect next quarter? I need line up now