[Tommah]

I think it's résumé-driven development taken to the extreme. Someone at Instacart just added a line to their résumé: "Integrated generative AI into core product, increased media coverage of company by 300%." Now they just have to cross their fingers and hope their prospective employers don't read Business Insider. (Or use Instacart, I guess.)

I hope that our industry eventually revisits (or arrives at) the idea of doing worthwhile things and doing them well. All the software job descriptions these days say that you should know Docker and Kubernetes and AWS Lambda and Terraform and MongoDB and Cassandra and Cloudflare and GraphQL and so on.... Meanwhile, their Facebook-for-dogs site gets ten visitors a day, and it runs dog-slow (pun intended) because their ex-FAANG dev lead wrote code that is bubble-sorting a billion items in main memory.