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Rad-daddio posted:real question for the WFH peeps. I am an elder millenial, I've been getting laid off and rehired and shuffled since the early 2000s and it's fine. AI is another tool for the toolbox and isn't going to replace devs any time soon. To that point- I got booted from a senior dev position last year when our parent company failed to secure a contract in a way that had absolutely nothing to do with our team, but hey 10% workforce reduction is what it says in the manual and I was one of the higher-earning non managers (and also a woman and queer but that had nothing to do with it natch) so out I went. My new place brought me on at a big salary bump to wrangle a team of Filipino contractors who had been sitting in an absolute clusterfuck of mismanagement and indecision. They are nice, chill dudes who get paid disgustingly little and I empathize enormously with them going "Yeah boss sure boss" to white corporate middle-american managers and then putting in absolutely minimal effort but when I came in, every single one was literally just transcribing problems to chatGPT, going "Give me a Javascript function to do (X)," and then copy-pasting that poo poo into our code base. It was making everything ten times harder than it needed to be both because the code output was never the optimal way to do a thing, and also because they had no idea what they were doing functionally, and the people asking them had no idea except "It needs to be a button that sends a form" etc. I've spent a lot of the last year educating them about pull requests and review systems, building E2E and unit test infrastructure, weeding all that generated code out of our repos, and teaching the drat PMs how to do their loving jobs. I'm happy with the team and couldn't give less of a poo poo about the company, and I'm sure I'll be cut loose again just as soon as the economy turns, and I don't really worry about it anymore.
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