Fellow senior developer. Initially I was worried about exactly what you’re worried about with juniors. Now I’m also worried that management layers are simply pushing for higher velocity without giving anyone time to think about a problem. We’re in this nasty loop where one person defers more decisions to a LLM to push their individual velocity up. They then get rewarded. Who care if they don’t know how the code works, it works! The tests pass. More people on the team should do the same or else. Then someone takes it a step further.
It will be very interesting to see how maintainable, or not, corporate code will be in a few years. There could well be a booming industry for people to come in and clean up the mess.
Oh indeed so. I’m very excited for the opportunity to charge desperate corporations at least 10x my current hourly rate for the privilege of unspaghettifying their “mission critical” “production ready” spaghetti without causing more outages and data loss than they’ll already be suffering from by that point.
“Oh, you replaced your entire SRE team with Claude? I see, interesting choice, would you like me to guess what your annual Anthropic budget probably looked like? I’ll be able to fix it for half of that.”
Fellow senior developer. Initially I was worried about exactly what you’re worried about with juniors. Now I’m also worried that management layers are simply pushing for higher velocity without giving anyone time to think about a problem. We’re in this nasty loop where one person defers more decisions to a LLM to push their individual velocity up. They then get rewarded. Who care if they don’t know how the code works, it works! The tests pass. More people on the team should do the same or else. Then someone takes it a step further.
It will be very interesting to see how maintainable, or not, corporate code will be in a few years. There could well be a booming industry for people to come in and clean up the mess.
Oh indeed so. I’m very excited for the opportunity to charge desperate corporations at least 10x my current hourly rate for the privilege of unspaghettifying their “mission critical” “production ready” spaghetti without causing more outages and data loss than they’ll already be suffering from by that point.
“Oh, you replaced your entire SRE team with Claude? I see, interesting choice, would you like me to guess what your annual Anthropic budget probably looked like? I’ll be able to fix it for half of that.”