Move fast with AI, and break things, many, many things really fast

I don't really understand this comment from the CEO.

Does he not understand the people making millions or billions off AI literally do not care?

They fully are committed to seeing if they can do away with having to employ people all together.

They want techno-feudalism.

Sam Altman and the ilk are so anti-humanity seeming in interviews it's really disgusting that we allow them to be in a position of power at all.

Is that still true if all the junior engineers are using AI?

By the way, junior devs are using AI for their work.

I don't know, I've always thought that junior problem was mostly non-technical, kids issues: overconfidence, love for shortcuts, sense of entitlement, arrogance, lack of communication and respect of colleagues, including fellow juniors and seniors, aversion to holy wars, lack of compromise and team discipline, disrespect to existing solutions, laziness in following-up post-delivery, negligent edge case checking, being opinionated about tooling, languages and whatnot. Very little of this can be fixed with AI, and many things can be easily amplified. I mean, one junior with AI vs one senior with AI might yield comparable results, but seven juniors with AI vs seven seniors with AI should fail pretty fast.

Watch them what they do, not what they say.

so what is the take away message? fire only the senior devs cause they cost too much and can't use AI?

…proceeds to replace junior devs with AI

Isn't it weird how nobody here cared about Silicon Valley ageism until it hurt junior developers. No, I don't have schadenfreude. I just see a bunch of people, even in this very thread, now claiming juniors somehow understand AI tools better than seniors. Even though we've all had the same amount of time to use them.

At some point, admit you have a problem maybe? Maybe that will only happen after you spent 20 years staying on top of the latest tools and tech only to be told you're out of style because your hair started to grey.

some companies doing the opposite, firing senior devs and hiring junior with AI experience