So true.

I worked one place where I had a team of 4 offshore devs replace my two good people. Three months of some of the worst quality work I’ve ever seen. And I was responsible for it on paper.

Decided fuck it, promoted one of them to manager and gave him a project to finish in 3 months, leading the other 3.

In that three months I redid that entire project, did their current project and a week of another one. All in a 25 hour week calendar.

Then I quit.

A lot of people are going to get a painful lesson in this if companies keep using LLMs to do all their programming.

Maintaining AI code is the new maintaining offshore code. I don't envy software engineers who are far from retirement.

People already look me like crazy when I still review all the code changes AI does, and not even using the agent directly. And make it do things differently if it is unmaintainable slop. Their argument is that are you really going to modify the code by hand in the future?