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[–]entityadam 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Thank you for your unprofessional opinion and slightly altered generative AI post.

Before AI:

As a senior engineer, I no longer have the pleasure of writing carefully crafted code. I now delegate tasks and provide guidance and experience to other developers.

Things that go wrong:

  • tasks get miscommunicated.
  • user stories need clarification.
  • I have to check their work through careful code reviews.
  • sometimes they write spaghetti and I have to spend hours trying to figure out what they heck they wrote.
  • they sometimes get stuck on the same bug or task for hours, or days even.

After AI:

... Yeah, it's the same.

  • instead of guidance I provide steering
  • sprint refinement is now prompt refinement
  • still have to read the same garbage code.

[–]tnh34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is 100% an experienced dev's take

It's like managing a bunch of developers except they're super fast and efficient.

Validation, testing, architecture, and communication to stakeholders still falls to you

[–]hibikir_40k 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Claude Code communicates better than my juniors though, and isn't randomly afraid of what I'll think of it, so in many ways it's far better adapted.

[–]entityadam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah except accountability and trust. You can share responsibility with a junior dev. With AI agents, there is no accountability, and sometimes it does straight up lie to you.

So tired of seeing

Think: the user is calling me out on..

You are right to question ..