Comment by gck1
7 hours ago
> But you are forgetting your skills (seen it first hand), and you're not learning anything new.
This is just false. I may forget how to write code by hand, but I'm playing with things I never imagined I would have time and ability to, and getting engineering experience that 15 years of hands on engineering couldn't give me.
> Your next interview won't be testing your AI skills.
Which will be a very good signal to me that it's not a good match. If my next interview is leetcode-style, I will fail catastrophically, but then again, I no longer have any desire to be a code writer - AI does it better than me. I want to be a problem solver.
> getting engineering experience that 15 years of hands on engineering couldn't give me.
This is the equivalent of how watching someone climb mountain everest in a tv show or youtube makes you feel like you did it too. You never did, your brain got the feeling that you did and it'll never motivate you to do it yourself.
This is only true for fully unsupervised "vibe coding". But you'll find this will not work for anything beyond a basic todo list app.
You'll free up your time from actually writing code, but on the other hand, you'll have to do way more reading, planning, making architectural decisions etc. This is what engineering feels like should be.