"Engineers sometimes exhibit an arrogance that they can do everyone else’s job,"

This rings so many bells that it feels like some Buddhist festival. Apply the same approach to QA, Operations, and anything outside the actual product development: when this arrogance was shared between bosses and developers, all good on their side. Now with the AI, the arrogance is staying only on the bosses' side, and we have developers freaking out.

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ozlikethewizard 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Its also a fucking annoying sentiment for us as engineers. I dont want to do everyone else's job

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jagged-chisel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But, as someone who’s agile and adaptable, I can do any job. That doesn’t mean I can do them all simultaneously. It doesn’t mean I can be the full-time loan officer and the full-time app developer.

Can I do your job? Yep. Can I also, at the same time, be the engineer that optimizes the IT systems? No - one of these jobs will suffer.

Give me the chance to understand your job, and I’ll replace as much of it as possible with code to do the same thing. But what it won’t do is have good judgement. It will make decisions on actual data - accurate data, erroneous data, it doesn’t care.

I think this is an interesting place to put “AI” - can it take input in the form of data and historical decisions, and come to a new decision from recent data? The same decision a human would?

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IAmBroom 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Thank you for embodying and exemplifying the point, albeit ironically.

	▲	jagged-chisel 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Aside: it has become an interesting personal experiment to stop being obviously ironic and see how people read what I’ve written. The voting is telling.