1980's .. compilers handle assembly, engineers loos touch with their code ...

Ironies of Automation is front and center in this article which is awesome. Many of the conversations on AI automation are describing or rediscovering the insights the paper covered.

Good article and I like the callouts to the aviation industry. For me what's missing is the author should also have touched on CRM and SRM.

Also, that paper "The Ironies of Automation" is one that everyone should read. It's fairly short.

There is a related problem in terms of these situations where the computer system is handing off to the human. It's called "the bumpy transfer of control." Very fascinating concept.

Prediction: this won’t happen. The abstraction will be good enough and people will need to know only as much as they need to know- things will stabilise at the equilibrium.

You rather generously assume engineers are in touch with their systems.

Even before layoffs many teams just maintained things org has long lost coherent knowledge of

After layoffs and typical org knowledge churn - you can either rewrite it (but how? Product team responsible for original implement requirements is long gone too) or recoup (reverse document) some of that lost knowledge with AI and actually learn

"Middle devs take care of incidents, senior devs lose touch with their systems"

"THIS IS NOT A DRILL"

That‘s the goal of the AI tech bro world: get us dependant on their tech, ruin our native/raw skills, lock us into their proprietary skills.

Reminds me of the move from on prem to cloud. Linux sysadmins were killed and replaced by aws focused devops.

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