2026-02-12 09:39 UTC
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@sarajw@front-end.social 2026-02-12 09:45
@mattwilcox this may be playing out at a smaller scale, firms that had sacked copywriters or programmers (or other jobs considered easy AI tasks) are apparently starting to hire these people back. The jobs will be less fun; they'll involve fixing the mess that happened in the interim. I hope the turn happens at a smaller scale before whole nations get caught up in this mess! There may be a skills shortage because people fell into the vibe-coding pit in recent years. Good for the rest of us!
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@ArtHarg@mastodon.nl 2026-02-12 18:07
@mattwilcox It’s also not bad if you’re one of the dinosaurs that does have senior skills. Man, we’re going to be in such demand to clean up the mess that AI will make. Another consequence: once the junior->senior pipeline has dried up and the seniors have withdrawn, there will be no innovation for AI to leech off of. Innovation will stall and we’ll end up with a blotchy remixed goop of everything that has gone before. Blandness rule! Regression to the mean for all!
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@FayeDrake@furry.engineer 2026-02-13 14:05
@mattwilcox what could possibly go wrong with making your provider chain completely reliant on companies that embody the absolute worst of Silicon Valley culture and have yet to show how they’re going to make a profit? (/s) But seriously, I cannot _wait_ for all this to go Total Inability To Support Usual Performance and for everyone to suddenly exclaim that it was impossible to see this coming.