Its worth mentioning that this essay has some signs of being either partially AI generated or heavily edited through an LLM. Some of the signs are there (It's not X, it's Y), With the blog having gone from nearly zero activity between 2015 and 2025 to have it explode in posts and text output since then also raises an eyebrow.
AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
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#12> you are not imagining things. The job changed. The expectations changed. And nobody sent a memo.
Looks like something AI would say. Regardless of how it really was written
Re: AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
#13I'm not sure if it's made engineering harder, but it's certainly changing what it means to be a good engineer. It's no longer just about writing code. Now it's increasingly about having good taste, making the right decisions, and sometimes just being blessed with the Midas touch. In any case, I think we should start treating the majority of code as a commodity that will be thrown away sooner or later. I wrote somethi…
> It's no longer just about writing code It never was
And now even more so.
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#14The post is right superficially. It made being an engineer harder because it took away the easy parts that anyone can do and it forces engineers to think of the hard ones. No jobs get easier with automation - they always move a step up in abstraction level. An accountant who was super proficient in adding numbers no longer can rely on those skills once calculator was invented.
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#15Its worth mentioning that this essay has some signs of being either partially AI generated or heavily edited through an LLM. Some of the signs are there (It's not X, it's Y), With the blog having gone from nearly zero activity between 2015 and 2025 to have it explode in posts and text output since then also raises an eyebrow.
It's now almost certain that every submission about LLMs will be written (or assisted) by LLMs.
That this kind of writing puts a great number of us off is not important to many who seek their fortune in this industry.
I hear the cry: "it's my own words the LLM just assisted me". Yes we have to write prompts.
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#16> This is not a contradiction. It is the reality ...
> That is not an upgrade. That is a career identity crisis.
This is not X. It is Y.
> The trap is ...
> This gap matters ...
> This is not empowerment ...
> This is not a minor adjustment...
Your typical AI slop rhetorical phrasing.
Phrases like: "identity crisis", "burnout machine", "supervision paradox", "acceleration trap", "workload creep"
These sound analytical but are lightly defined. They function as named concepts without rigorous definition or empirical grounding.
There might be some good arguments in the article, but AI slop remains AI slop.
Re: AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
#17It might be worth mentioning studies that show the lack of productivity gains from LLM usage. These posts take it as an unequivocal given. Management might still have the expectations that certain tasks are faster. But they aren’t always connected to reality because they’re not thinking as engineers.
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#18Its worth mentioning that this essay has some signs of being either partially AI generated or heavily edited through an LLM. Some of the signs are there (It's not X, it's Y), With the blog having gone from nearly zero activity between 2015 and 2025 to have it explode in posts and text output since then also raises an eyebrow.
It is almost 90% generated using AI text. So many paragraphs to say basically nothing at all.
Like look at this paragraph:
> Junior engineers have traditionally learned by doing the simpler, more task-oriented work. Fixing small bugs. Writing straightforward features. Implementing well-defined tickets. This hands-on work built the foundational understanding that eventually allowed them to take on more complex challenges.
The first sentence was enough to convey everything you needed to know, but it kept on adding words in that AI cadence. The entire post is filled with this style of writing, which, even if it is not AI, is extremely annoying to read.
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#19Its worth mentioning that this essay has some signs of being either partially AI generated or heavily edited through an LLM. Some of the signs are there (It's not X, it's Y), With the blog having gone from nearly zero activity between 2015 and 2025 to have it explode in posts and text output since then also raises an eyebrow.
I feel like it's such a lack of self respect and respect for others when people write using AI on personal blogs.
Reading AI code is very pleasant. It's well annotated and consistent - how I like to read code (although not how I write code LOL). Reading language/opinions is not meant to be this way. It becomes repetitive, boring, and feels super derivative. Why would you turn the main way we communicate with each other into a soulless, tedious, chore?
I think with coding it's because I care* about what the robot is doing. But, with communication, I care about what the person is thinking in their mind, not through the interpretation of the robot. Even if the person's mind isn't as strong. At least then I can size the person up - which is the other reason understanding each other is important and ruined when you put a robot in between.
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#20Its worth mentioning that this essay has some signs of being either partially AI generated or heavily edited through an LLM. Some of the signs are there (It's not X, it's Y), With the blog having gone from nearly zero activity between 2015 and 2025 to have it explode in posts and text output since then also raises an eyebrow.
Even the title has that unmistakable smell of punchy LinkedIn profundity.