By far the most useful thing AI had done for me is let me plow through all that in a fraction of the time I would have before. They're spending a ton of money to make employees more efficient at the pointless bullshit they themselves put in our way.

And before some scrum master shows up and tells me how important stories are, I'm not arguing against planning. I am arguing against pointlessly over planning to make a bunch of suits happy when teams aren't given the kind of time to actually plan that far in advance.

What portion of a job must be done by AI before the human loses their job? 80%? Even 98% (and we’re nowhere near that) will produce a ton of friction when applied to a team of developers.

The problem is that the narrative of imminent job displacement is the prevailing one and becomes self fulfilling.

  - the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon