Well, for what it's worth (maybe nothing), I think you can feel relatively good about your accomplishment.
The technical leader who essentially dictated to me how to build one of my recent deliverables down to nearly the exact architecture was basically treating me like an AI. If they didn't have that deep knowledge I would have also taken 10x longer to arrive at the endpoint. I followed their architecture almost exactly, and due to their much more deep knowledge than mine I encountered very few issues with that development process as a result. Had I been on my own I would have probably tried multiple things that simply didn't work.
That person also has to be a little bit willfully ignorant about the code that I am going to produce. They don't know what I'm going to write or if it's going to suck, and maybe they won't even understand it because it's spaghetti. And they won't actually have the time to fix it because they have a zillion management-level priorities and multiple layers of reporting chain below them.
Is this AI world kind of shitty and scary how it might just screw our industry over and be bad for the world? It might be, we might be like the last factory workers before Ford Motor Company goes from 100,000 workers on the line to 10,000 or 1,000.
But like every cordless drill given to engineers, it's tough not to use it.
The technical leader who essentially dictated to me how to build one of my recent deliverables down to nearly the exact architecture was basically treating me like an AI. If they didn't have that deep knowledge I would have also taken 10x longer to arrive at the endpoint. I followed their architecture almost exactly, and due to their much more deep knowledge than mine I encountered very few issues with that development process as a result. Had I been on my own I would have probably tried multiple things that simply didn't work.
That person also has to be a little bit willfully ignorant about the code that I am going to produce. They don't know what I'm going to write or if it's going to suck, and maybe they won't even understand it because it's spaghetti. And they won't actually have the time to fix it because they have a zillion management-level priorities and multiple layers of reporting chain below them.
Is this AI world kind of shitty and scary how it might just screw our industry over and be bad for the world? It might be, we might be like the last factory workers before Ford Motor Company goes from 100,000 workers on the line to 10,000 or 1,000.
But like every cordless drill given to engineers, it's tough not to use it.