Comment by paperplaneflyr
6 months ago
After reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao, actually changed my perspective towards these AI companies, not that they are building world-changing products but the human nature around all this hype. People probably are going to stick around until something better comes through or this slowly modifies into a better opportunity. Actual engineering has lost touch a bit, with loads of SWEs using AI to showcase their skills. If you are too traditional, you are kind of out.
Can you elaborate on that last sentence a bit? How has engineering lost touch?
What I mean is the process of brainstorming with other engineers or understanding a complex solution from a more senior engineer is fading away. There are lots of tools with AI that do it for you. The human experience of connecting is going away.
The act of putting characters in files isn't the value.