The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code ↗
Denis Stetskov:
Five to ten years from now, we’ll need senior engineers. People who understand systems end to end, who can debug distributed failures at 2 AM, who carry institutional knowledge that exists nowhere in the codebase. Those engineers don’t exist yet because we’re not creating them. The juniors who should be learning right now are either not being hired or developing what a DoD-funded workforce study calls “AI-mediated competence.” They can prompt an AI. They can’t tell you what the AI got wrong.
Ignore the click-baity title. This is a well-written and well-argued post on how the software industry might be hurtling towards a grim future, the kind of present that the West’s defence industry has found itself in as an unexpected war broke out between Ukraine & Russia.