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And who can't code its way out of a wet paper bag on hard problems. It's more productive for the day-to-day BS, which is convenient because it creates more day-to-day BS you need to handle, but that isn't the reason I hire a staff engineer.

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i'm sorry but you're wrong and the only person you're hurting with your delusions is yourself. it doesn't change reality to pretend the world isn't changing under your feet.

i'm not going to argue about this but for your own career etc i truly hope you evaluate your epistemics.

Sure, it's changing, and I use AI a ton. The second I ask it (where "it" is a smattering of all the SOTA models and harnesses) to do something as simple as design a server capable of doing <moderately simple task> when any concurrent data structures are involved and the single-server load is in the 100k QPS range, even with extremely thorough plans of how concurrency needs to be managed, it doesn't matter how little code is actually needed or how easy it would be for my juniors to bang out the problem, especially with a little AI boost, AI just can't keep up by itself yet. It can sometimes spit out something close, but only with major correctness issues.

I'm not trying to be argumentative; You posed an idea, and it looked wrong in an important way, so I added my observations. I'd love if you could share the model/harness/workflow you use that makes you so confident in this tooling, because I don't want to be left behind.

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