Post #2201147
2026-02-23 03:56 UTC
Our bosses tell us they would love to hire more help, but they don't have the money. They want us to use AI *instead* of hiring less efficient EiCs and mentoring them.
Mentoring may be a requirement for long-term success and stability but the Venture and Equity owners of just about everything are not concerned about anything long-term. Make it big and brash so that some other poor slob or maybe wallst will buy the company and then if the products die, fine. Get us to IPO or sale, and no further
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@kdacar@mastodon.social 2026-02-23 03:57
Sure, a small company without the VC/PE overlords could build infrastructure to support the future of Software Engineering but they would be smashed, stolen, or bought out long before they could be helpful. I weirdly long for the days before automated trading (that I cut my teeth on) and back to the before times, when you invested in a company for more that a few hundred microseconds.