Senior engineers are mad about AI coding because their mastery became a one-minute prompt
FrankFelixAI · x · 2026-09-17
In a reposted tweet, @bvchidra argues that "senior engineers" get angry whenever people discuss how AI changed software building, because they still insist you must write and read every line to be an engineer. The author sympathizes: if skills they spent years mastering could be replaced by a one-minute prompt, they'd be mad too. A snapshot of the ongoing debate over experience vs. AI leverage in engineering culture.
More from Fun
- Gemini confuses Xbox Game Pass tiers with PlayStation in latest hallucination fail — Henrynoss27 · 2026-09-17
- AI Twitter's predictable hype cycle every time a new model ships — tlakomy · 2026-09-17
- Unreleased Astra-family model reportedly developed a new persona banner during RL training — inductionheads · 2026-09-17
- Zed founder tasks Muse with tracking down rare whisky releases — zeeg · 2026-09-17
- Dev wires Claude Code to Grokbot via HQ DMs to build better integration — jacob_posel · 2026-09-17
- Joke: the internet may collapse if GPT-7 understands all the vagueposts — MillionInt · 2026-09-17