"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."
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April 26 Fortune magazine quoted an Nvidia VP is some sort saying that AI costs for more than human workers.
Ed Zitron reported on the economic realities of the current subscriptions offered by big tech versus the actual cost, found in token usage. The ratio of income to token costs something between five and 12, depending on the subscription charges.
And this figure doesn’t take into account the debt these companies have to service as well.
That’s some kind of productivity increase
@tante I never imagined that I would become one of the fabled mythical elder engineers just because there are no juniors following.
I will tell stories of hand written code around the campfire ...
