AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder

Post by 383toast » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

yawnxyz wrote: post #239

I have a similar problem - AI is making building products easier, but it's made "shipping" a product 100x harder. I was always a mediocre engineer, and stopping out on a personal usually happened bc "feature XYZ is way too hard to build and I won't spend another three weeks on it". Nowadays anything can be built in a couple of days, scope creep plus "would be cool if it could also do XYZ" makes it harder to walk away…

Post by 383toast » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

Spide_r wrote: post #11

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.

Post by 383toast » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

phyzome wrote: post #150

jatins wrote: post #131

The post itself is 100% AI written https://www.pangram.com/history/6572a5c4-f548-46e2-977d-9813...

Reminder that AI-writing detection tools are largely junk.

Post by 383toast » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

simianwords wrote: post #4

The 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.

Post by SignalStackDev » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 6:02 PM UTC