[ubercore]

The jobs AI crisis is me being stressed and overworked as management demands more AI, showy (but shallow) "look I made a skill" presentations grab attention, and my PR review queue grows every day as people generate more code than ever.

But to keep this out of a low-value vent, my experience has been that the _threat_ of it is there, but in my small corner of the world/industry, lots of layoffs that would have happened anywhere may just be categorized as "AI" layoffs, but the wild manpower reducing benefits aren't really there. The larger an org gets, the more of your job is dedicated to human stuff, and you can just get some of the code part done a little more quickly.

Would be interesting if we could measure how much effort is put into agentic coding harnesses, frameworks, and theory, vs labor saved using them.

[epolanski]

Have never worked in my life like last year, and there's no signs of slowing down.

At least I don't have to review PRs, we have built a team around the concept of trust and not needing to check each other's work.

There's simply too much work to start nit picking in PRs, everybody's very talented and a good engineer you can trust. They ask for feedback when they want it.

And no, we're not producing slop, if anything AI has helped improve the codebase a lot and the harnessing has definitely raised the bar at all levels.

But sure as hell, the job sucks now, and I hate it. And it's not just due to the amount of work.

[ubercore]

75% of the value on PR review is team visibility

[epolanski]

We have built our team around not needing team visibility. We're 5 developers working on 7 products used by 5 different companies.

I *don't* want to have to know what others are doing nor how. This may work on teams that work on a narrower scope and lower rhythms, cannot work for us.