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Sorry but what the heck is up with all the ellipses in this comment?
They're trying really hard to make sure you know they didn't write their post with an LLM? /s
"bespoke, hand generated content straight to your best readers"
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.
It's backpedaling but I don't think it's planning ahead to prevent a developer shortage - rather it's pandering to the market's increasing skepticism around AI and that ultimately the promised moonshot of AI obsoleting all knowledge work didn't actually arrive (at least not in the near future). It's similar to all those people who were hyping up blockchain/crypto/NFTs/web3 as the future, and now that it all came to p…
Most of the apps that I use regularly fail at least once a day nowadays. I think this is a direct cause of putting AI code in production without reviewing/QA.
While I have no particular love for AI generated code, I think this has nothing to do with AI. Software has been unreliable for over a decade. Companies have been rushing out half baked products and performing continual patches for many years. And it's our fault because we have just come to accept it.
The "over" deserves a lot of emphasis. To this day, I save my code at least once per line that I type because of the daily (sometimes hourly) full machine crashes I experienced in the 80s and 90s.
> AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (theregister.com) 1697 points by JustExAWS 3 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44972151 Does this story add anything new?
on a separate note- If AI eats the SaaS, what will happen to AWS?
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.
Interesting take... I'm seeing a pattern... People think AI can do it all... BUT I see juniors often are the ones who actually understand AI tools better than seniors... That's what AWS CEO points out... He said juniors are usually the most experienced with AI tools, so cutting them makes no sense... He also mentioned they are usually the least expensive, so there's little cost saving... AND he warned that without a…
For medium or small companies, these guardrails or documentation can be missing. In that case you need experienced people to help out.
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Week 1: 64 interns Week 2: 32 interns Week 3: 16 interns Week 4: 8 interns Week 5: 4 interns Week 6: 2 interns Week 7: 1 intern Week 8: 0.5 interns Is it possible to make it to the end of the summer without getting sliced in half?
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.
Relevant post by Kent Beck from 12th Dec 2025: The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/the-bet-on-juniors-just-got... > The juniors working this way compress their ramp dramatically. Tasks that used to take days take hours. Not because the AI does the work, but because the AI collapses the search space. Instead of spending three hours figuring out which API to use, they spend twenty minute…
first response from me "let me mention how the real business world actually works" .. let's add a more nuanced slice to that however Since desktop computers became popular, there have been thousands of small to mid-size companies that could benefit from software systems.. A thousand thousand "consultants" marched off to their nearest accountant, retailer, small manufacturer or attorney office, to show off the new des…
Lotus Notes is an example of that custom software niche that took off and spawned a successful consulting ecosystem around it too.