First of all, I think the problems of the industry were long overdue.
It started with Twitter and it proved it can be done.
AI just made it easier psychologically because it's much easier to explore and modify existing code and not freak out "omg, omg, omg, we've lost this guy and ony he understands the code and we're so lost without him".
AI just removes the incentives to hoard talent.
I also think of excel/spreadsheets and how it did in fact change accounting industry forever.
Every claim the author makes about software developers could have been made about accounting after the advent of electronic spreadsheets.
I don't want to even get started on the huge waste and politics in the industry. I'm on the 3rd re-write of a simple task that removes metrics in Grafana which saves the team maybe 50$ monthly.
If the team was cut in half, I'm sure we'd simply not do half the bullshit "improvements" we do.
First of all, I think the problems of the industry were long overdue. It started with Twitter and it proved it can be done. AI just made it easier psychologically because it's much easier to explore and modify existing code and not freak out "omg, omg, omg, we've lost this guy and ony he understands the code and we're so lost without him". AI just removes the incentives to hoard talent.
I also think of excel/spreadsheets and how it did in fact change accounting industry forever. Every claim the author makes about software developers could have been made about accounting after the advent of electronic spreadsheets.
I don't want to even get started on the huge waste and politics in the industry. I'm on the 3rd re-write of a simple task that removes metrics in Grafana which saves the team maybe 50$ monthly. If the team was cut in half, I'm sure we'd simply not do half the bullshit "improvements" we do.