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AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

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Re: AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

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Post by jsheard »

twostorytower wrote: post #2

Well, yeah. Then who will become the senior engineers in 10-15 years?

You think the people deciding whether to hire more juniors are planning more than one or two quarters ahead? 10-15 years is someone else's problem.

Re: AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

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Post by simonw »

tastyfreeze wrote: post #6
twostorytower wrote: post #2

Well, yeah. Then who will become the senior engineers in 10-15 years?

Obviously after 10-15 years of experience working as a developer AI will be a senior dev. Probably will get promoted to management with all that experience.

Promoting your best engineers to management sometimes gets you a great manager, but often gets you a mediocre or just-about-competent manager at the cost of a great engineer.

I'm a big fan of the "staff engineer" track as a way to avoid this problem. Your 10-15 year engineers who don't vibe with management should be able to continue earning managerial salaries and having the biggest impact possible.

https://staffeng.com/about/

I'm also a fan of leadership without management. Those experienced engineers should absolutely be taking on leadership responsibilities - helping guide the organization, helping coach others, helping build better processes. But they shouldn't be stuck in management tasks like running 1-1s and looking after direct reports and spending a month every year on the annual review process.

Re: AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

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Post by frostiness »

I can't help but feel this is backpedaling after the AI hype led to people entering university avoiding computer science or those already in changing their major. Ultimately we might end up with a shortage of developers again, which would be amusing.

Re: AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

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Post by azemetre »

twostorytower wrote: post #2

Well, yeah. Then who will become the senior engineers in 10-15 years?

These people are working on destroying the planet to make more money, they absolutely do not care. Our society isn't set up to punish them, but encourage such behavior to even more extremes (see datacenter build outs causing water shortages, electricity hikes, and cancer in poor communities; nearly every politician capitulating on such actions because they don't know better).
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