What the hell is going on right now?

In a recent company town-hall, I watched as a team of junior engineers demoed their latest work. I couldn’t tell you what exactly it did, or even what it was supposed to do - it didn’t seem like they themselves understood. However, at a large enough organization, it’s not about what you do, its about what people think you do. Championing their “success”, a senior manager goaded them into bragging about their use of “AI” tools to which they responded “This is four thousand lines of code written by Claude”. Applause all around.

The reckoning will come for us all.

Seriously thinking of changing careers into security, since it continues getting worse as our dependence on computers becomes more encompassing.

What are the cost savings of paying ChatGPT $20 a month and then having a literal team of engineers try and review and merge the code?