Agree, and I think it's funny someone downvoted you because that's always been the case, AI didn't change that. It's just now we're seeing the next evolution and we'll see who sticks around and who doesn't.
Ha, think you just discovered the standard model from the 2000s!
But I agree.
Damn, this is a big one. I've been watching since it started, and I hope it sends shockwaves through the SaaS model. Institutions learned overnight how by trusting one single private company that they were all screwed over, and probably made them even a bigger target. Hopefully they start re-evaluating.
Having worked ed-tech for a while, I'm not surprised. Blackboard, Canvas, all hot garbage. There's a real need there, if someone can do a simple selfhosted (by the university) version with oauth/SSO to campus networks that lets them control their data? It'd be a no brainer, I think most campus IT networks would prefer that.
Oh of course, the entire engineering team was halted and it was mandated from the top. Everything stopped. Stupidest thing I've ever seen, I've never seen an HR department - sorry the "People Department" wield so much power. Completely stupid. They took no input on how we should do it properly.
Yup, and probably a lot less engineering time too since those who came across each one knew the details of what they were working on, and what the implications of the change would be. Vs what I had to do which was learn about each one, make sure I wasn't destroying something, making sure no one else depended on, repeat times like 30.
You have a very rational way of seeing it, and I would have done the same thing. Only thing I'd say for the original asker is to be a bit more direct, they dance around it a bit, but that's a nitpik at most.
A story, I remember about 7 years ago I was asked to go through and rename every instance of "whitelist"/"blacklist" to "allowlist"/"denylist". I stand by that searching through the codebase and having me do that everywhere was a waste of time, it took me about a full week of time just to do that change with DB migrations and frontend updates and everything in just my chunk of code, I can't imagine how much time was spent company-wide. I found out it was actually pushed by the "People Department" as they called themselves then, and they did not care at all that it was in code only and not even visible to anyone. But I rolled my eyes and did it, it's just one of those things. I do purposely choose allowlist/denylist when writing new code because I understand it, but I also stand by it was asanine and meaningless to waste time and have me do all of them at once. A better mandate would have been "If you see whitelist/blacklist, you should now change it to allowlist/blocklist as you come across it, with teammates holding that bar in PRs. No modifications should be done without also updating the naming".
This is the only sane answer here, and it makes sense because of the sentiment on Lemmy.
There is one constant rule about software engineering. You must be adaptable. The career is ever changing, you need to be okay with that. I think a lot of people right now are finding out that if they dig in their heels they think they're making a point, but the company doesn't care, there's the door. AI is just another change in the career. Adapt, or be left behind.
The job isn't the same as it was 5 years ago, which also was different than it was 10 years before that, and then 10 years before that. I'll say this is a large change, but that's the job.
I think the biggest thing is there's no room for "I'm a react engineer" anymore. Everyone needs to be everything, and it means learn as much as you can as fast as you can. You must be a "T-shaped" engineer. Wide breadth, with specific deep knowledge that makes you stand out. You can be an expert at react, but should also know how to code in the backend, and how to deploy, how to work with APIs, some basic cloud architecture. If you're not learning, you're falling behind.
I would agree, but for them to get triggered by someone saying it is also stupid. Feel like I would have said "feel free to submit a PR"
Its a huge learning curve, but once it clicks and you get it running you'll never want to go back.
Ugh Dakota Johnson. I've tried so many of her movies. She is good at playing exactly one role: Dakota Johnson. Just gets dull.
Car, Power, Electricity, they're all falling behind. US is doing so many stupid laws right now because it's the last place that the lobbies are desperately holding onto. Rest of the world has already been moving away, and the companies know it. Now the shareholders are starting to know it. You literally can't beat free electricity from the sun. They could only prolong it so long, and you can tell they're desperate with forcing the US to act against it's best interest.
Important to define risk because a lot of software people here(me included) will immediately think "what do you mean their data was hacked". However from a legal standpoint they get to point the finger at Canvas.