An engineering manager writes about software careers, seniority, team dynamics, and how AI coding tools change engineering work.
Commenters link its posts on AI and on simplicity as relevant and good on their own, in discussions about AI skepticism among engineers.
I agree with this guy: https://obie.medium.com/what-happens-when-the-coding-becomes-the-least-interesting-part-of-the-work-ab10c213c660
When you look at the AI as having a Jr. Developer at your disposal to do the mundane things you actually elevate yourself higher than you could individually (without the help) as you focus more on architecture and design and guide the LLM to make incremental improvements instead of decremental ones. That's my take at least.
This one also:
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job/
it’s linked in the blog, but the prior post is great on its own too: https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job/
it does seem like the skepticism is fading. I do think engineers that outright refuse to use AI (typically on some odd moral principle) are in for a bad time
Relevant
https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/