Comment by dogbait

I work at a FAANG adjacent company as an EM and the 4x engineers who’ve recently been PIPd all went off the deep end using agents to write huge amounts of convoluted or unsuitable code.

One of them has decades of experience coding and even devised our onboarding training for using Cursor and Bedrock at the company but they too were called out for building a wholly unsuitable and unmaintainable service which could have been more simply solved with some common libraries and Docker micro services rather than 10k+ lines of custom code.

We all receive a copy of Cursor and IntelliJ + Copilot on joining and I just keep seeing engineers (surprisingly the more experienced ones so far) footgunning themselves with these tools.