Force to always use TTD, at least validate the tests.

Recommend reading (All though a little self serving): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-code-quality-jorge-varas-a...

Product doesn’t care. And most of us will get replaced by agents. I guess around 30% of the engineering workforce will keep their jobs which will be mainly to keep the product up and running, doing whatever it takes (so using agents to fix stuff basically).

The ones who get to keep their jobs will be rebranded as Maintenance engineers with a lower salary. VPs and Heads of will keep their cozy job (bc there are not so many of them), and they are not that dumb to fire themselves.

Code understanding doesn’t matter anymore (or won’t matter soon)

Maybe a related question:

How do you keep the IEC 62443-4-1 auditors happy?

I had same problem, but after a while I just accepted that is inevitable

My Jira tickets are written by AI started just feeding the ticket into AI (shrugs)

No I only do that for unit tests so far

I went through like a mid-life crisis when the thing I learned/spent last 13 years on became meaningless.

I don't. I understand it, and if there's anything I don't, I ask it about it and research until I do.

I went exactly through the same process. And that's why I developed agent-squad: https://github.com/gzurl/agent-squad

My conclusion was I had to elevate myself and make sure another agent reviews and tests the code (QA) under the supervision of a third agent (CTO) that defends my vision.

I only ship code I don't understand if it comes with a proof of correctness

I will get downvoted for this comment on this forum but I will call it out.

You wont be able to review or understand code for much longer.

There will be just too much of it. The vastness of code libraries in 5 years are hard to imagine by today's standards.

We need to develop tools that help us understand.

I'd quit. and I did, even before getting my first job that was not an acquaintance's startup, not counting this summer. in fact, I got fired this summer for having called Claude Code "a decent search engine" afther the first two weeks. I fell in love with making code run fast on poor hardware back when I was 8, and now there is a high likelihood that I'll end up a truck driver.

my only response to those who remain and try to control the slop is

  Praise the Omnissiah!

and really, you should have an Imperium/Mechanicus-level devotion (whether it's to money or to AI itself) to survive this and not burn out. in my region, though, you are not getting money - salaries were slashed in half across the board over last two years.

https://t.me/djinni_official/2163 (go in with translator; infographics are in English but explanations are not)

at this point, for a junior, it's easier to find a well-paying blue-collar job than to get into tech, and the ceiling is falling at the speed of sound.