Comment by sensanaty

Because the marketing started with "This is literally the singularity and will take over everything and everyone's jobs".

Then people realized that was BS, so the marketing moved on to "This will enhance everyone's jobs, as a companion that will help everyone".

People also realized that was pure BS. A few more marketing rebrands later and we're at the current situation where we try to equate it to the lowest possible rung of employee they can think of, because surely Junior == Incompetent Idiot You Can't Trust Not To Waste Your Time†. The funny part is that they have been objectively and undeniably only getting better since the early days of the hype bubble, yet the push now is that they're "basically junior level!". Speaks volumes IMO, how those goal posts keep getting moved whenever people actually use these systems in the real work.

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† IMO every single Junior I've ever worked with has been some of the best moments of my career. It allowed space for me to grow my own knowledge, while I get to talk to and help someone extremely passionate if a bit overeager. This stance on Juniors is, frankly, baffling to me because it's so far from my experiences with how they tend to work, oftentimes they're a million times better than those "10x rockstars" you hear about all the time.