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>He was successful in the end

So it sounds like it was fine? Why would this prompt (haha) a change in their approach to things?

Now imagine if you’re one step removed. You don’t see the cigarettes, smell the gasoline, nor see the fire extinguisher gauge. You only see the servers running business-as-usual. Those “engineering” guys are always drama queens, you think. We have processes and fire extinguishers when shit hits the fan, right?

That’s basically every M2, and many if not most M1s, in the last 10 years. So fuck it. Why does any of it matters?

... If it's been like that for 10 years then it can hardly be blamed on "AI".

Yes, you can’t blame AI for it. But it was a self limiting system. You couldn’t just go to a fresh college hire and ask them to do deep surgery on the entire stack. You would go to your very senior engineers for that. Those senior engineers will push back on some stuff then in the push-pull cycle you would have to settle at some middle ground.

With AI I’m seeing managers literally get an intern, ask them if they can change fundamental assumptions of a system, give the intern claude 1M window, have the intern ready with a 37k line PR in an afternoon and then go ping a senior engineer if they can “take a look”.

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