[AkelaA]

In my experience it’s usually the engineers that aren’t worried about AI, because they see the limitations clearly every time they use it. It’s pretty obvious that whole thing is severely overhyped and unreliable.

Your boss (or more likely, your bosses’ bosses’s boss) is the one deeply worried about it. Though mostly worried about being left behind by their competitors and how their company’s use of AI (or lack thereof) looks to shareholders.

[DrewADesign]

It depends on where you are in the chain, and what kind of engineering you’re doing. I think a lot of engineers are so focused on the logistics, capabilities, and flaws, and so used to being indispensable, that they don’t viscerally get that they’re standing on the wrong side of the tree branch they’re sawing through. AI does not need to replace a single engineer before increased productivity means we’ll have way too many engineers, which mean jobs are impossible to get, and the salaries are in the shitter. Middle managers are terrified because they know they’re not long for this (career) world. Upper managers are having 3 champagne lunches because they see big bonuses on the far side of skyrocketing profits and cratering payroll costs.