So 99% of software ‘engineers’ then? Have you ever looked on Twitter what ‘professionals’ write and talk about? And what they produce (while being well paid)?
People here generally seem to believe, after having seen a few strangeloop presentations and reading startup stories from HN superstars, that this is the norm for software dev. Please walk into Deloitte or Accenture and spend a week with a software dev team, then tell me if they cannot all be immediately replaced by a slightly rotten potato hooked up to chatgpt. I know people at Accenture who make a fortune and are proud that they do nothing all day and do their work by getting some junior geek or, now, gpt to do the work for them. There are dysfunctional teams on top of dysfunctional teams who all protect eachother as no one can do what they were hired for. And this is completely normal at large consultancy corps; and therefor also normal at the large corps that hire these consultancy corps to do projects. In the end something comes out, 5-10x more expensive than the estimate and of shockingly bad quality compared to what you seem to expect as being the norm in the world.
So yes, probably you don’t have to worry, but 99% of ‘keyboard based jobs’ should really be looking for a completely different thing; cooking, plumbing, electrics, rendering, carpeting etc maybe as they won’t be able to even grasp what level you say you are; seeing you work would probably fill them with amazement akin to seeing some real life sorcerer wielding their magic.
Actually, a common phrase I hear from my colleagues when I mention some ‘newer’ tech like Supabase is; ‘that’s academic stuff, no one actually uses that’. They work with systems that are over 25 years old and still charge a fortune by the cpu core like sap, oracle, opentext etc. And ‘train’ juniors in those systems.
So 99% of software ‘engineers’ then? Have you ever looked on Twitter what ‘professionals’ write and talk about? And what they produce (while being well paid)?
People here generally seem to believe, after having seen a few strangeloop presentations and reading startup stories from HN superstars, that this is the norm for software dev. Please walk into Deloitte or Accenture and spend a week with a software dev team, then tell me if they cannot all be immediately replaced by a slightly rotten potato hooked up to chatgpt. I know people at Accenture who make a fortune and are proud that they do nothing all day and do their work by getting some junior geek or, now, gpt to do the work for them. There are dysfunctional teams on top of dysfunctional teams who all protect eachother as no one can do what they were hired for. And this is completely normal at large consultancy corps; and therefor also normal at the large corps that hire these consultancy corps to do projects. In the end something comes out, 5-10x more expensive than the estimate and of shockingly bad quality compared to what you seem to expect as being the norm in the world.
So yes, probably you don’t have to worry, but 99% of ‘keyboard based jobs’ should really be looking for a completely different thing; cooking, plumbing, electrics, rendering, carpeting etc maybe as they won’t be able to even grasp what level you say you are; seeing you work would probably fill them with amazement akin to seeing some real life sorcerer wielding their magic.
Actually, a common phrase I hear from my colleagues when I mention some ‘newer’ tech like Supabase is; ‘that’s academic stuff, no one actually uses that’. They work with systems that are over 25 years old and still charge a fortune by the cpu core like sap, oracle, opentext etc. And ‘train’ juniors in those systems.