Now the impostors use AI and pretend they are geniuses. That will work, for a while. But I have seen two cases up close now where a relatively stable code base was wrecked inside of 6 months by juniors posing as seniors. In one of these the actual seniors left and now the company has a bit of a problem. I've declined to help fix it, I suggested they re-engage with the people that left, double their salaries and allow them to roll back to when things were still stable but they're not having it, so I don't think it is going to end well for them. You can use AI responsibly, and it will definitely help with some tasks and as long as you are able to contain what gets produced and pace it to the speed at which you can review. But there is a cadre of people that are 'all in' on this, they only see velocity, they don't see the approaching wall. Impact is a given.

It’s like trying to create a new type of imposter syndrome, but instead of referring to complex data structures and architectures, it’s the most effective esoteric inactions to chant at the Jira ticket resolving machine.

I think it is some interesting mix of Dunning Kruger and Gambler's Fallacy.