I'm starting to notice a trend of mentioning AI in these layoff notices.
I guarantee you this is going to be a batch of older workers and PIP candidates.
AI is new and fresh. It is the domain of younger employees.
I'm using AI in my workflow with success. It's not that difficult.
However, I consider the jump from mid level to senior less about programming in general, and more about architecture, collaboration, and requirement gathering in the context of the business.
I don’t think AI will make junior devs into senior. That may fool some business folks, but senior, staff, and even fellow junior devs in the field (vs newly grad) will catch on.
Like any tool, it’s great to work with until it isn’t. To say, once the guardrails of what the tools designed to do are broken, you must revert to fundamentals to solve the problem.
I agree that with AI, the guard rails become far wider, for sure. But I think a tool like this is better at making a senior dev more efficient than actual skill bump of say an entry level to junior or higher.
1. Team has an eng with 1 yoe at the company and 2 eng who just joined
2. Manager tells eng with 1 yoe at the company "lead this project" because they're the only person who's on-boarded
3. Project ships and eng with 1 yoe says "I lead a multi person project, I am senior"
4. Manager promotes them out of fear of a job hob
This happened to a lot of people during the pandemic and as the bar has raised back up many of these folks are struggling.
I think you mean Looper! Both are great movies though
AKA expensive ones, so maybe.
"AI is new and fresh. It is the domain of younger employees."
Is that supposed to be sarcasm?
Reading that post, the cynic in me couldn't help but think that the CEO of Stack Overflow just wanted to do "the hip thing" these days, which is to lay off people for no reason and write a blog post taking "full responsibility". What best way to polish your CEO CV in 2023 than to be in the company of Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and etc?
Of course, the fact that people are getting fired over the performance is a tiny detail easily glossed over.
Yes, change happens, companies hire and lay off. Businesses start and businesses go bankrupt. Sometimes change is uncomfortable. But policy designed to prevent change in society is a bad thing in my opinion.