The gamble is that you can cruise on the senior engineer’s diminishing understanding for a few years until models become good enough that you don’t need any humans in the loop and you can fire all those expensive seniors.
The tragedy is having a bunch of those senior engineers writing blog posts and what not of how productive they are, without realising that it means business now needs less of them.
The tragedy is having a bunch of those senior engineers writing blog posts and what not of how productive they are, without realising that it means business now needs less of them.