I don’t buy this. 18 years of experience and everyone prefers people who have no pre-llm dev experience instead? Not a single company values an engineer who actually understands the code he commits?
Pretty sure this is just someone trying to sell us even more doom.
Now the system’s still going to crash at 3am but nobody will know why. His skills aren’t obsolete, they aren’t being valued for that they are. The demand still exists, but their market value has plummeted because of abundant AI substitute. But what happens later if the substitute doesn’t measure up?
Was this written by AI? Or is there some local sit-down restaurant with waitstaff that just happens to share a name with a famous fast food chain?
A waiter at McDonald’s? That’s a real job right? That doesn’t sound made up at all. But I’m sure the rest of the story is COMPLETELY factual right?
“Inc.” magazine is not known for quality articles.
Believe it or not, the mcdonakds by me no longer offers counter service. You order at a kiosk and then someone brings you your food. It’s as bad as it sounds.