Oh noes, an anonymous person on the internet thinks my anonymous account is rude. Whatever will I do?
Plus this is a valid discussion. A minimum wage worker is generally intelligent, BGI - Biological General Intelligence.
Hiring them to do tasks that AGI does is a cost-benefit analysis. Whereas that BGI has sick days and may not even work. Afterall minimum wage, minimum work.
I'm a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience; I worked with small teams and enterprises, and I successfully contributed to the success of many products,
Hire me if you want to onboard a passionate, team player, used to wear hmany hats, colleague.
But I'm starting to have an identity crisis: am I doing it wrong, and should I use an agent to write any line of code of the product I'm working on?
Have I become a dinosaur in the blink of an eye?
Should I just let it go and accept that the job I was used to not only changed (which is fine), but now requires just driving the output of a machine, with no creative process at all?
A year ago my org brought cursor in and I was skeptical for a specific reason: it was good at breaking CI in weird ways and I keep the CI system running for my org. Constants not mapping to file names, hallucinating function names/args, etc. It was categorically sloppy. And I was annoyed that engineers weren't catching this sloppy stuff. I thought this was going to increase velocity at the expense of quality. And it kind of did.
Fast forward a year and I haven't written code in a couple of weeks but I've shipped thousands LOC. I'm probably the pace setter on my team for constantly improving and experimenting with my AI flow. I speak to the computer probably half the time, maybe 75% on some days. I have multiple sessions going at all times. I review all the code Claude writes, but it's usually a one shot based on my extensive (dictated) prompts.
But to your identity crisis point, things are weird. I haven't actually produced this much code in a long time. And when I hit some milestone there are some differences between now and the before days: I don't have the sense of accomplishment that I used to get but also I don't have the mental exhaustion that I would get from really working through a solution. And so what I find is I just keep going and stacking commit after commit. It's not a bad thing, but it's fundamentally different than before and I am struggling a bit with what it means. Also to be fair I had lost my pure love of coding itself, so I am in a slightly weird spot with this, too.
What I do know is that throwing myself fully into it has secured my job for the foreseeable future because I'm faster than I've ever been and people look to me for guidance on how they can use these tool. I think with AI adoption the tallest trees will be cut last -- or at least I'm banking on it.
So you are telling me that quoting the time spent to build a single square yard of fabric in the pre-industrial society is a contextualized comment to the % of co2 emission for the fashion industry?
Location: Milan, Italy
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Google Cloud Platform
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdarrigo/
Email: darrigo.g@gmail.com
I'm a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience; I'm searching for a small, compact team where I can have an impact. I'm actively looking because the company I work for is laying off.
That's pretty rude to say, at minimum.