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AI Didn’t Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier https://robenglander.com/writing/ai-did-not-simplify/

Look on the bright side in a few years there will be good demand for "artisanal" software engineers and specialized IT folks who can fix this AI slop generated code at 1000$ per hour.

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AI Didn't Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier

If all the companies that have "pivoted to AI" haven't gone bust by then. That's my main concern, people keep saying "Yes, but in a year they'll have to hire us back to fix everything", but who will hire us back? The companies who have destroyed themselves by wholesale buying into this fad?

March 14, 2026 at 3:47:31 PM

money never vanshies. It just changed its owner. ;)

Someone will have a lot of money.

Yeah, but they won't be paying us ${WAGES_WE_MISSED} to fix things, those things will be gone. They'll be paying us ${PROBABLY LESS THAN WE WERE BEING PAID} to set up new infrastructure for new companies.

of course they won’t pay for the damage they caused. Why should they?

If they go bust that's a good thing. Better companies will replace them. Ideally many smaller companies instead of few tech giants, and companies that are less top down owned/controlled. They're legacy in so many ways.

Large companies pivoting to their own destruction might not be all bad though. Very few pieces of software are actually unique, and when they are it's often because the big fish having bought and closed the competition.

As an example, let's say Microligarcy, goes a head with their plan to auto slop the Windopoly kernel over to Rust. It will most likely fail miserably, and thereby drive additional Linux adoption.