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Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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I work for a fortune 500 company.
just recently lost a principal engineer that built an entire platform over the last four years.
just before they left I noticed they were using AI an awful lot. like...a lot a lot. like, "I don't know the answer on a screen share so I'll ask ChatGPT how to solve the problem and copy/paste it directly into the environment until it works" a lot.
they got fired for doing non-related shit.
it's taken us three months, hundreds of hours from at least 5 other principal engineers to try to unravel this bullshit and we're still not close.
the contributions and architecture scream AI all over it.
Point is. I'll happily let idiots destroy the world of software because I'll make fat bank later as a consultant fixing their bullshit.