A bit unrelated to the article, more of a commentary about how many engineers at this point barely write any code or even do code review.
It seems to me like a huge amount of engineers/developers in comments are turning into Tom Smykowski from The Office. Remember that guy?
His job was to be a liaison between customers and engineers because he had "people skills":
"I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
Except now, based on comments here it, some engineers are passing instructions from customers to AI because they have "AI skills". While AI is doing coding, helps with spec clarification, reviewing code and writing tests.
That's scary and depressing. This field in a few years will be impossible to recognize.
It seems to me like a huge amount of engineers/developers in comments are turning into Tom Smykowski from The Office. Remember that guy?
His job was to be a liaison between customers and engineers because he had "people skills":
"I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
Except now, based on comments here it, some engineers are passing instructions from customers to AI because they have "AI skills". While AI is doing coding, helps with spec clarification, reviewing code and writing tests.
That's scary and depressing. This field in a few years will be impossible to recognize.