[jimmy2times]

The AIs have already figured out how to succeed in a software job:

1. Ship bugs

2. Fix them

3. You're the hero!

[jimbokun]

Dilbert beat you to it:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/488178/what-does...

[dingaling]

The non-programmer decomposition of that joke was painful to read.

Particularly from those outside the domain who criticised it as a 'not a very good joke' because they didn't understand it, which I think summarises the entitled mindset of many people these days.

[genghisjahn]

I thought we were all doing that already?

[pjmlp]

The idea is to take the human out of the loop.

[mindcrime]

    > But in 30 days we could put in electronic relays. Get the men out of the loop.

    > Gentlemen...
    > I wouldn't trust this overgrown pile of microchips further than I could throw it. I don't know if 
    > you wanna trust the safety of our country to some... silicon diode...

[flir]

Jesus, dude. There are managers reading this.

[TeMPOraL]

What do you think they do all day?

The larger pattern is not unique to writing code. Think of it next time a reorg comes, or some random thing gets "improved" in the name of "efficiency" only management seems to see.

[OtomotO]

Take them out of the loop.

Unless they are not human.

[joquarky]

They became obsolete when they stopped clearing obstacles, stopped masking politics, and started acting as a proxy for JIRA.

But it's just they way it has always been done, so they get paid to meddle.

[josh-sematic]

I’m guessing you wouldn’t really rather be managed by a bot..,

[OtomotO]

I am not managed by anyone:p

[genghisjahn]

>_<

[SecretDreams]

Meanwhile, experienced humans learned to succeed by not overachieving every second of the day to keep a steady flow of work going. Then a junior rolls up who wants to kill themselves to climb the ladder - but, problem solved, sub the AI in for the juniors to protect the seniors.