Athletes have a far bigger curve than you're aware of

And generally most make little money, while sometimes it's a net negative for them to participate and compete in their sport.

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/going-for-go...

Unions rarely form because everyone is being treated well (humanely) and/or paid appropriately.

The extreme is, are you only happy when your products are created in sweatshops, or, worse, by slaves?

since some of their gripes are "use ai" and "rto" I don't think we are talking about a sweatshop.

This is what killed search more than anything else - people actively working to get their results higher than they would have been under "normal" conditions.

I saw an article on HN a while back that showed the math for "senior" employees was affected by the amount of profit generated off them.

I think that it was pitched at sales, but maybe could be applied to ENG.

The thinking was - if you have X sized market, you price in Y for your staff and you take Z for the profit - as the price of your staff increase, if the size of the market, or your share of it, does not increase, your profit decreases.

So it makes sense (the article argued) to drop the senior staff, and bring in the lower paid, but almost as good, intermediates - the profit stays the same.

There's always been a reluctance by business to hire juniors, AI is just the latest excuse.

Mate, have you never had to deal with over-confident graduates who think they've got the complete answers, but, in reality, they only have a sliver of the whole picture in their minds?

That is different than the suggestion that one could graduate with a CS degree and "never think." Which is absurd.

In answer to the headline - it's not, no more than calculators stopped people from thinking.

It's changing the way we think, and reason.

Speaking as a BE focused Go developer, I'm now working with a typescript FE, using AI to guide me, but it scares the shit out of me because I don't understand what it's suggesting, forcing me to learn what is being presented and the other options.

No different to asking for help on IRC or StackOverflow - for decades people have asked and blindly accepted the answers from those sources, only to later discover that they have bought a footgun.

The speed at which AI is able to gather the answers from StackOverflow coupled with its "I know what I am talking about" tone/attitude does fool people at first, just like the over-confident half assed engineers we have always had to deal with.

Unlike those human sources, we can forcefully pushback on AI and it will (usually) take the feedback onboard, and bring the actual solution forward.

Thus proving the engineer steering it still has to know what they are doing/looking at.

Yeah - humans have adapted to be able to use milk(s) from other sources than parents for the high sugar and fats present and required to survive in harsher climates (cold) that we're not native to.

Milks, butters, and cheeses are a high value food source for people who burn massive amounts of calories to keep their bodies warm.

I've recently been introduced to that plugin, love it for humour

When I was younger I absolutely HATED changing gear on the tractor - it was a matter of dropping the revs which caused a dive, then a clunk finding the gear, then a jolt as the gear took hold and the revs came back up

I never felt in control of that old beast

Changing gears while driving? Are you sure you where supposed to? Many old tractors are without synced drives, so you are supposed to select gear before you start driving. Of course you can change when driving, but then you have to match revs to not get the drop betwen

You have to match revs anyway. Without Synchromesh the trick is to double declutch.

Ha ha, that's such a wonderful description, that's exactly how it feels!