Yes, you can’t blame AI for it. But it was a self limiting system. You couldn’t just go to a fresh college hire and ask them to do deep surgery on the entire stack. You would go to your very senior engineers for that. Those senior engineers will push back on some stuff then in the push-pull cycle you would have to settle at some middle ground.
With AI I’m seeing managers literally get an intern, ask them if they can change fundamental assumptions of a system, give the intern claude 1M window, have the intern ready with a 37k line PR in an afternoon and then go ping a senior engineer if they can “take a look”.
With AI I’m seeing managers literally get an intern, ask them if they can change fundamental assumptions of a system, give the intern claude 1M window, have the intern ready with a 37k line PR in an afternoon and then go ping a senior engineer if they can “take a look”.