God, this title reads like “AI made coding faster, but are you creating enough value for the shareholders?”
I would have liked to change it too, as it doesn’t really fit…
AI has turned code into the cheap part of software development. Unfortunately, bugs, security reviews, integration headaches and maintenance haven’t received the memo. We can now generate technical debt at machine speed while asking the same exhausted senior engineer to approve it all. That’s not quite the productivity revolution on the slide deck.
while asking the same exhausted senior engineer to approve it all.
With the additional problem that we are no more educating juniors so when senior developers will leave the job market we will have no one ready to replace them.
Which is short-term bad for juniors, but long-term good in terms of salary. When companies get desperate, they’ll pay.
Winners will be those that don’t use this slop.
