[kebman]

Here's the kicker: AI was supposed to automate the boring parts so we could “focus on high-leverage, strategic, needle-moving, synergistic core competencies.” Instead, we’re stuck in a recursive loop of prompt engineering, hallucination triage, output validation, re-prompting, Slack channel FOMO, and productivity theater. We’ve basically replaced “doing the work” with “managing the tool that kinda tries to do the work but needs babysitting.” Congrats—we’ve invented Jira for thought. And here's the kicker.

[vouaobrasil]

AI was never supposed to automate the boring parts. It's what it was advertised to do. Sort of like how those "as seen on TV" weight loss pills are "supposed" to help you lose weight.

The purpose of AI is supposed to *make a few people richer*! Not take away the boredom from tasks. That's only a side effect of it used to sell it.

[throwawaysleep]

Or we are all just dev leads now managing junior dev swarms.

[leptons]

Those "junior dev swarms" will never become seniors, so you're perpetually handholding and always getting junior-dev results. It isn't a step forward in any way.

[throwawaysleep]

Junior devs won’t become seniors at your company either, so no practical difference there.

You have to hire new ones as they leave.

[leptons]

That's funny, because you don't know me. You are a troll.

All of the juniors I have hired in the last 10 years are now seniors, still at my company.

[tdiff]

Unfortunately, most devs are not working on “high-leverage, strategic, needle-moving, synergistic core” things not because they don't have time to.