Your Career Isn't Eroding - You're Just Holding the Wrong Moat
8d 4h ago by programming.dev/u/codeinabox in programming@programming.dev from blog.herlein.com
Hell, I have NO IDEA what those really mean, but it’s 3 seconds away via prompt.
This is where I stopped reading, and it's so emblematic of the argumentation I routinely see.
"I have no first hand knowledge of your domain, but let me tell you why you're wrong about it" is just a derivative of "everything I don't understand is simple", and I will have no part in that.
I can't even tell you how many times people around me do this.
At some point x feature was requested.
First thing was an AI prompt asking how it could be done and how long it would take.
"3 days" was the response. They had never implemented that before, ever. Told the client right away.
It took around a month to get to a working state.
AI is really great at giving a beginner tier understanding of something, which people then take and run with as if they are now an expert.
The author may be, in theory, right, but it counts for nothing if the people in charge don't recognize where that actual value is. Which MANY of them do not.
Why does this read like it was written by Claude?
Because it obviously was.
The dashes, the short sentences, the bullet points, the overly familiar tone that seems LinkedIn-ish. All of it sounds like AI.