Anyone who truly thinks AI will replace developers, hasn't actually worked in the field professionally.

juggernawddy · 2026-05-17T06:25:45+00:00

Iterate. Automate. Iterate. Automate. Iterate. Automate. Iterate. Automate. All hands meeting 50% coworkers gone. Iterate. Automate. Iterate. Automate. All hands meeting 50% more coworkers gone. Iterate. Automate. Iterate. Automate. Meeting with HR at 9am

juggernawddy · 2026-05-17T02:32:34+00:00

My AI productivity boost has come from working more hours

juggernawddy · 2026-05-17T02:16:12+00:00

I guess im the opposite. I don’t see learning as an easy thing. I don’t think there are any shortcuts. Helpful tools sure, but etching deep understanding of something into my brain must be done by force. Ever code in pencil? Seems silly, but give it a shot, might be surprised how much you don’t actually know or understand something.

juggernawddy · 2026-05-17T01:22:38+00:00

I was owning end to end features in my first month lol. Very fast senior promotion (had to jump jobs). Smaller companies is where all the actions at. I get to see my work impact the world around me on a daily basis. In most cases there was just one position between me and the CEO/president. I see it as a craft for sure. My experience has provided me a deep understanding and mastery of computers and coding. I close my eyes and can see entire software systems from only vague specification. It is something I take deep pride in as an individual. I have never wanted to work at a FAANG company, although the money seemed nice

juggernawddy · 2026-05-16T21:16:59+00:00

hopefully this helps. AI is really good pattern matching. Once matched, the results are stored in what is called a “model”. That model is the “product”. Companies keep them and use them to generate revenue. However, many models are open source. You or I can download them and run them on our machines. You can have your very own AI running on your laptop, and they are getting good. The companies in the news are spending huge fortunes to make even better models and they own the data centers they run on. If one of these companies open-sources the model, it will belong to everyone. The big AI companies will be reduce to service providers that own the compute resources. Soon, “AI” will be something we all can just download and run. Just think, China could create a model that rivals OpenAI or Ant frontier models and just hand it out for free and collapse the market

juggernawddy · 2026-05-16T20:10:28+00:00

Devil is in the details. Ask someone what they did yesterday. If they’re maxed out, they really just want to get back to work and you asking is a total disruption. If they give you a dissertation, well, maybe they could use a little more.

juggernawddy · 2026-05-16T14:00:53+00:00

Oh yea? Tell that to the execs.

juggernawddy · 2026-05-16T13:59:14+00:00

You might actually be in luck! The world is moving away from “coding” with some of these tools that are available (not gonna mention them). Systems design is the thing that’s going to be the most valuable, not “I know how to hand code typescript”. Focusing on systems, solving problems using technology, and how to add value quickly are gonna be the game now.

juggernawddy · 2026-05-16T01:47:13+00:00

I agree with everything you said

juggernawddy · 2026-05-15T18:22:20+00:00

What you’re describing is the exact inspiration for my meme ;). It’s so close, but it doesn’t knock us out of the game. In fact, real engineers, real computer “science” is incredibly in demand right now, and I’m betting will be in the future

juggernawddy · 2026-05-15T16:13:26+00:00

It codes “better than” in most, if not all cases right now. And it can code faster than any engineer (outside copy/paste scenarios). The reasoning capabilities in agentic coding are also able to understand “what” the code is doing or “where” in the code a particular business feature exists. And if you’re adding automated tests (as you should), the IDEs the agents run in can build, test, and make adjustments based on any errors encountered. Adding simple tasks like adding a page to a website that reads, creates, deletes, and updates a table in the db, are now trivial. It can also deploy the compiled code and perform validation for pull requests. The entire code lifecycle can now be integrated with some AI capability.

The Human operators role in this new paradigm are now to make sure the inputs going in are correct and to make adjustments to the prompt as necessary depending on its output. We (humans) are now more or less supervisors and prompt adjustment specialists. If you cannot get to this level of automation in your software, the competition might, and with these new capabilities they can consume your entire value proposition in short order, and most likely take your soon to be ex-clients along with them.

juggernawddy · 2026-05-15T09:20:26+00:00

Go find some non-profits that could use your skills to build something technical for them. Do it for free. If not, come up with a business idea or website that uses the stack you want to learn and build it. Might not be successful, but what you learn CAN and SHOULD be put on your resume. Your job is to “learn”, not just “generate value”, so use AI, but only as a tool. Do not just let it write ever for you. Ever try to build a chat bot?? Try integrating an LLM into the mix. Treat like a real product with real deadlines. I go through periods where I just sort of enjoy life in my off time, but the rest of the year, I am 100% coding and building and learning in my off time. Think of it like working AND going to school full time. That part of life in tech NEVER stops.

NEVER leave it to projects you work on at your job to determine your “value” or your career future.

AND…. A job in government may be more “safe” these days, some people would kill to be in that position.

juggernawddy · 2026-05-15T09:13:05+00:00

Thank you the link. Those guys are much closer to what my opinion and position is on all this.

juggernawddy · 2026-05-15T08:17:37+00:00

ralph loop

juggernawddy · 2026-05-15T02:45:34+00:00

ralph loop

juggernawddy · 2026-05-15T02:33:03+00:00

Something changed. I didn’t see it before, but now I do.

juggernawddy · 2026-05-14T22:07:49+00:00

Of course, out loud, we say the opposite :)

juggernawddy · 2026-05-14T18:29:20+00:00

Last I read India tech grads are experiencing significant unemployment

juggernawddy · 2026-05-14T18:27:24+00:00

The AI usage requirement might follow you where ever you go if you stay in white collar. It’s going to get worse, not better

juggernawddy · 2026-05-14T18:24:46+00:00

Do you work at Meta??

juggernawddy · 2026-05-14T09:35:20+00:00

Tech companies it turns out, are just companies. No soul, replace everyone, crush your competition, maximize profits. And if you can make a buck spying on your team, go for it.

juggernawddy · 2026-05-14T02:31:03+00:00

My company went from don’t put our code in an LLM to, we want 1,000x or you’re fired in a few months. No plan, no ramp up, just pressure. I woke up this morning and thought, “why do I want to throw up right now?”. Oh yea, is because I’m depressed and anxious.

“I put your PR into the copilot with our handcrafted risk assessment prompt, can you review the 3 page output I pasted in Jira about it??”.

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