I think AI is going to make senior engineers at big tech companies 10x more productive.
A lot of senior engineers in the big tech companies spend most of their time in meetings. They're still brilliant. For instance, they read papers and map out the core ideas, but they haven't been in the weeds for a long time. They don't necessarily know all the day-to-day stuff anymore.
Things like: which config service is standard now? What's the right Terraform template to use? How do I write that gnarly PromQL query? How do I spin up a new service that talks to 20 different systems? Or in general, how do I map my idea to deployable and testable code in the company's environment?
They used to have to grab a junior engineer to handle all that boilerplate and operational work. Now, they can just use an AI to bridge that gap and build it themselves.
A lot of senior engineers in the big tech companies spend most of their time in meetings. They're still brilliant. For instance, they read papers and map out the core ideas, but they haven't been in the weeds for a long time. They don't necessarily know all the day-to-day stuff anymore.
Things like: which config service is standard now? What's the right Terraform template to use? How do I write that gnarly PromQL query? How do I spin up a new service that talks to 20 different systems? Or in general, how do I map my idea to deployable and testable code in the company's environment?
They used to have to grab a junior engineer to handle all that boilerplate and operational work. Now, they can just use an AI to bridge that gap and build it themselves.