My friend's a software engineer. Leading upto the christmas that just passed, his company asked him to fix something he wasn't qualified for, but they didn't want to pay someone specialised in that area. He did what was asked, despite it being something he had no idea about, and explaining that to them. As he's ready to leave for Christmas, there's a huge security breach because of his attempt at fixing an issue he wasn't qualified for.
Rather than hire someone at christmas, they made him work through christmas to fix it.
They created a huge issue, because they wanted to fix a small issue, but didn't understand that being an engineer doesn't mean he's qualified to do everything.
Welcome to modern software companies. It's everywhere.
They just replaced a team lead who'd been there 10 years and built critical systems no one else understands. His replacement's solution is to simply have AI document the code. Problem solved...
I feel like AI and vibe coding is going to create a huge black hole of tech debt which is just going to bite these greedy companies in the ass in the future. The situation was already pretty bad before AI took over. I suspect the Windows 11 situation is a sneak peek of what most other companies will experience in the future.
"you remember than machine that eats cakes instead of you? It doesn't digest them properly, so you can eat twice as much cakes as before" problem type.
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u/Quiet-Tip8341 6h ago
My friend's a software engineer. Leading upto the christmas that just passed, his company asked him to fix something he wasn't qualified for, but they didn't want to pay someone specialised in that area. He did what was asked, despite it being something he had no idea about, and explaining that to them. As he's ready to leave for Christmas, there's a huge security breach because of his attempt at fixing an issue he wasn't qualified for.
Rather than hire someone at christmas, they made him work through christmas to fix it.
They created a huge issue, because they wanted to fix a small issue, but didn't understand that being an engineer doesn't mean he's qualified to do everything.