[twostorytower]

Well, yeah. Then who will become the senior engineers in 10-15 years?

[jsheard]

You think the people deciding whether to hire more juniors are planning more than one or two quarters ahead? 10-15 years is someone else's problem.

[steveBK123]

Yes, unfortunately 10-15 years is 5 sequential someones else's problems.

[azemetre]

These people are working on destroying the planet to make more money, they absolutely do not care. Our society isn't set up to punish them, but encourage such behavior to even more extremes (see datacenter build outs causing water shortages, electricity hikes, and cancer in poor communities; nearly every politician capitulating on such actions because they don't know better).

[riskable]

I wish people would get off the "AI is the worst thing for the environment" bandwagon. AI and data centers as a whole aren't even in the top 100 emitters of pollution and never will be.

If you want to complain about tech companies ruining the environment, look towards policies that force people to come into the office. Pointless commutes are far, far worse for the environment than all data centers combined.

Complaining about the environmental impact of AI is like plastic manufacturers putting recycling labels on plastic that is inherently not recycleable and making it seem like plastic pollution is every day people's fault for not recycling enough.

AI's impact on the environment is so tiny it's comparable to a rounding error when held up against the output of say, global shipping or air travel.

Why don't people get this upset at airport expansions? They're vastly worse.

[ghc]

Pretty sure Anthropic is hoping the answer is Claude.

[marcosdumay]

Pretty sure Antropic knows their hopes won't come true. They just won't tell you that.

[phyzix5761]

10-15 years? Sadly, most people are declared senior after like 2 years of work.

[tastyfreeze]

Obviously after 10-15 years of experience working as a developer AI will be a senior dev. Probably will get promoted to management with all that experience.

[simonw]

Promoting your best engineers to management sometimes gets you a great manager, but often gets you a mediocre or just-about-competent manager at the cost of a great engineer.

I'm a big fan of the "staff engineer" track as a way to avoid this problem. Your 10-15 year engineers who don't vibe with management should be able to continue earning managerial salaries and having the biggest impact possible.

https://staffeng.com/about/

I'm also a fan of leadership without management. Those experienced engineers should absolutely be taking on leadership responsibilities - helping guide the organization, helping coach others, helping build better processes. But they shouldn't be stuck in management tasks like running 1-1s and looking after direct reports and spending a month every year on the annual review process.

[nextworddev]

AI will be the senior engineer

[otikik]

Anything besides next quarter does not exist.

[DiscourseFan]

You can’t pretend you know where technology will take us.

[philipwhiuk]

Stolen from your competitors, obviously.