2 posts tagged with "engineering"

I've written about AI across engineering roles — No Junior Engineers?, The Senior Engineer's AI Trap, The AI-Augmented Engineering Manager, and How Ops Engineers Can Stay Relevant. I kept skipping product managers.

At work, my team has a PM. I kept thinking I was the wrong person to write about a role that belonged to someone else. Then I started building my own projects on the side. I noticed I was spending more time on product decisions than on implementation.

That was the point.

The engineers I worry about most aren't the juniors struggling to break in.

They're the 10-year veterans who've added AI tools to their workflow, are producing work at roughly the same pace they were 18 months ago, and have concluded that AI is "useful but overhyped."

The junior who's struggling at least knows there's a problem to solve. The senior who's plateaued often doesn't.