PIP, PIP, Hooray! You’re Getting Well & Truly Shafted Today!
The ultimate death knell notification in software engineering tenure.
You might think things look pretty bad when an excited looking project manager rushes to the front of yet another company all hands meeting, opens up their overpowered and ludicrously expensive laptop, spends 10 minutes trying to get their display on the projector, then another 10 trying to get it the right way up, and then, finally, reveals “Good news everyone! We’re adopting Agile!”.
I’m sure someone’s pleased about that. Well, aside from anyone that has to develop software that is — as, for us, it’s a sign to update our LinkedIn profiles¹, contact some recruiters, and start looking for another job.
You also might think it’s bad if your project manager, middle-manager, or even CTO (who really should know better, but rarely does) begins to talk about how the company should start “leveraging AI”, maybe “employ some prompt engineers”, and start looking at “no code” solutions to enable managers to directly generate actual applications.
No-one in their right mind is pleased about this aside from the charlatans selling UI shells over OpenAI API keys, of course.
It’s not just developers who are firing up their browsers this time though (not Chrome or Edge, though, obviously)…
