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I wonder, when you retire, who will they find to replace you?

At our current rate of AI progress, I no longer expect this career to last until my retirement. It’ll be agents all the way down soon enough.

And I have been an AI skeptic, so it pains me greatly to admit that.

I'm trying to picture a time when a VP or other upper management can tell the AI "hey! We need an app that will do this thing!" And it will magically figure out all the unstated things that it needs to do, and absolutely not do, and provide that app. Maybe it's just my lack of imagination.

I am teaching my Ai to write good code, just as I have juniors at a dozen orgs in the past. I am teaching to be as good as me.

Your might be too young, but I remember the Graat Outsourcing. Engineering teams were replaced wholesale with overseas counterparts. The original engineers literally trained their own replacements.

Those companies have for the most part continued to thrive, despite the resulting enshitification of their products and services.

History says this time will be no different.

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