in business people don't value youth
Market forces are nudging everyone towards having senior writers who are also good prompt engineers: An arrangement that meets all of their needs faster and cheaper than hiring junior humans.
The Death of the Junior Developer
Gene, as an accomplished and senior author, is delighted with his productivity gains with his LLM of choice, Claude Opus. He showed me a big writing project that he'd just finished, in which he had spent easily 45+ minutes crafting the prompt, refining it until he had a 7500-word narrative that could serve as a starting point for rewriting,
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The structures for learning are disappearing faster than new ones are forming. Remote work has accelerated this breakdown, erasing the in-person mentorship that came through proximity. Economic pressure has led many teams to skip the slow burn of junior development altogether.
Welcome to the entry-level void: what happens when junior design jobs disappear?
“Retirement is lame” - Jeff Bezos
One hypothesis on why social networks tend to lose heat at scale is that this type of old money can't be cleared out, and new money loses the incentive to play the game.
Remains of the Day • Status as a Service
The Death of the Junior Developer
sourcegraph.com
working at a big company is basically an accelerated course in how power actually works. once you see the sheer level of inefficiency, rent-seeking, & arbitrary decision-making, it kind of breaks all illusions about big companies.
the best part is realizing that half the people in charge have no clue what they’re doing... See more
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like, you know, no reference point to go off of, that’s ego system. That’s “I am the synthesizer; therefore, you consume me and I give purpose to your identity.” Ecosystem is “I’m showing you every line that I pulled from, and I’m giving you access to every single person.”