It really does feel like I've gone from being 1 senior engineer to a team that has a 0.8 Sr. Eng, 5 Jrs. and one dude that spends all his time on digging through poorly documented open source projects and documenting them for the team.
Sure I can't spend quite as much time working on hard problems as I used to, but no one knows that I haven't talked to a PM in months, no one knows I haven't written a commit summary in months, it's just been my AI doppelgangers. Compared to myself a year ago I think I now PERSONALLY write 150% more HARD code than I did before. So maybe, my first statement about being 0.8 is false.
I think of it like electric bikes, there seems to be indication that people with electric assist bikes actually burn more calories/spend more time/go farther on an electric bike than those who have manual bikes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22141....
I don't know what you're posting, but if it's anything like what I see being done by GitHub copilot, your commit messages are junk. They're equivalent to this and you're wasting everyone's time:
// Sets the value
const value = "red"this is a strawmans argument... of whatever your are arguing
I see it myself, go to a tech/startup meetup as a programmer today vs in 2022 before ZIRP ended.
It's like back to my youth where people didn't want to hear my opinion and didn't view me as "special" or "in demand" because I was "a nerd who talked to computers", that's gotta be tough for a lot of people who grew up in the post "The Social Network" era.
But anyone paying attention knew where the end of ZIRP was going to take us, the fact that it dovetailed with the rise of LLMs is a double blow for sure.