Comment by docmars

Dang right we do.

And the problem isn't even the Junior Zoomer devs running circles around seniors. It's the CTO or Engineering VP himself disappearing for a few months and single-handedly consolidating a handful of products into a full rewrite for the company, excluding most of their engineering team from the process, and then laying them off after.

The problem is the CEO pretending to be an engineer and thinking they know better because they can write English prompts and spit out a hideous prototype.

The problem is Product Owners using LLMs to "write code" while their engineering team does zero human review before merging it, because their AI tooling was made solely responsible for code quality. If something's broken, just prompt a sloppy fix full of hidden performance and security bugs that the automated code review step missed.

If you think this is hyperbole, I was recently laid off from a company that did exactly the above.

Then in 2027, it will be product owners replacing the entire engineering team, including the CTO, because they made their system too reliable to justify their employment, while the "thinkers" get to build the product, engineers be damned.

People with real skills they acquired over a lifetime are no longer shaping business. Reckless efficiency towards being average will rule the day.