A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession
  • rhamph@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    There’s a ridiculously simple test you can use to figure out whether AI mandates at a given company are well-considered, or are being shoved out the door by out-of-touch buffoons: What happens when an engineer documents that AI made a task worse? Are they taken seriously, or are they marginalized and eventually managed out?

    Even easier test: is it an AI mandate?

    • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      If AI makes a task easier i find that engineers will use it. Engineers are lazy. We want to automate stuff so ee dont have to do it.

      • schnoopy@awful.systemsEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Engineers are a formally certified thing, you don’t get to call yourself an engineer because you make digital machines.

        One of the certification requirements is ethical standards and education.

  • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This document contains a lot of great stuff. I have a tremendous level of respect, both personal and professional, for Amazon’s Principal Engineering community; I’m led to understand that that respect may not be reciprocated, but that’s okay. I am, by their standards, a lapsed engineer who ran away to join the circus as one of its lesser clowns.

    was there really a need to grovel