[Thanemate]

I'm somewhat halfway through the original memo, and I hate the fact that kernels of truth lie here and there. For example, I used to work as a full-stack developer for about 2 years, and now I got forced into what the memo calls "gig economy" just to pay the rent, because companies slowed down hiring junior developers thanks to... Honestly, I don't really care at this point what I have to thank for.

All I know is, whenever I read testimonies from people whose companies suddenly decided to force LLM usage for productivity to be "AI first", having colleagues opening PR's who are only machine reviewed with implementations they cannot justify themselves outside of "Claude wrote it", makes me burnout just reading them. And it's only going to get worse until it becomes better, but not for the developers.

Honestly, the one thing that I could see justify all the investment companies make for LLM-assisted coding is the full automation of software production. I can only see the current state of things as the "end game" for them, only if they suddenly decide to jack up pricing to tap directly on the corporate budget and not the individual developer's budget.