AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
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I'm simultaneously frustrated and I see a business opportunity - I now know that we senior folks are very far from replaceable - and soon there might be consulting to fix big problems. No one will say it's AI's fault necessarily - you'll just be living with painful complexity that works for a startup or an individual entrepreneur but not in an…
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🌕 AI 正在消滅軟體工程的「中產階級」 ➤ 當程式碼變得廉價，如何避免陷入 AI 帶來的技術債泥淖 ✤ https:// blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-re moving-middle-class-software-engineering.html 本文探討人工智慧對軟體開發生態產生的深遠衝擊。AI 雖然極大提升了程式碼產出的速度，卻也加速了缺乏良好工程文化之團隊的崩潰。當工程師過度依賴 AI 生成程式碼與進行決策，會導致專案複雜度失控、技術債迅速累積，且無人能理解整體架構。作者指出，未來軟體工程師的薪資差距將進一步擴大：缺乏判斷力、僅能依賴 Prompt 產出程式碼的「平庸工程師」將被淘汰，而具備架構設計與決策能力的優秀工程師則會變得更加珍貴。 +…
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Interesting article, and it makes a lot of salient points.I think I can agree with most of it while also arguing that I don't think good code has ever had an honest measurement of quality. From an end user perspective, the end product either works or doesn't. Working terribly is the same thing as doesn't work and working well is the same as…
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Technology has been doing this for decades. I think a lot of our "K shaped economy" discourse is about the bifurcation of the upper middle class creating downwardly mobile educated young people. Nobody in my wife's immediate family finished college. She and all of her cousins are quite indisputably better off than their parents. My father in law…
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I have witnessed first hand this and must say is a disaster, the person that came up with a fix to an issue that I didn't understand tried everything to convince me that the automated fix works.Indeed the fix did work, but when I asked him to explain me the problem and the fix he started to use the prompt to get answers.At that point I just let it…
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I thought this was a good read. From my experience and to my dismay, what is considered a "good" or "bad" engineer/developer can be surprisingly subjective. I completely agree that an engineer should never submit a massive PR and instead break the work down, question, and understand the AI-generated code. I also agree that any reviewer should push…
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> bad engineers were always a liabilityThis part of the article hits home for me. With AI, "bad" engineers can now amplify their "bad" engineering x10 across the organization. The most egregious of these cases for me is often long tenured engineers who have lost interest in the craft, creating a dangerous combination of having enough merit to ship…
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This blog post illustrates the importance of NEVER outsourcing your critical thinking or outsourcing decision-making to an LLM. And to never take shortcuts with learning. Learning is hard, but learning things properly allows you to understand what is happening and allows you to ask the right questions about whether the changes an agent wants to…
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> > bad engineers were always a liability> With AI, "bad" engineers can now amplify their "bad" engineering x10 across the organization.Yup, and that's going to be the comeuppance for a decade of aggresive overhiring.There are so many "bad engineers" filling the ranks now that in many teams and divisions there's not even anyone left around who can…
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> With AI, "bad" engineers can now amplify their "bad" engineering x10 across the organization.I think the real pain though is that AI also often removes the feedback loop between "good" engineers and "bad" engineers. A lot of "good" engineers started as "bad" engineers that learned, sometimes the hard way and sometimes with patient mentorship…