Post #4349005
2026-07-12 07:24 UTC
Related courage or stupidity? - https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/116898915360905510
“Key takeaways:
- Mid-level engineers are subsidizing everyone else’s AI productivity – and burning out for it.
- The warning signs are there if you look closely: the invisible validator problem is probably already in motion.
- The ‘fix’ is making oversight explicit. The engineers burning out today were meant to become your senior leaders tomorrow.” - https://leaddev.com/ai/ai-productivity-is-burning-out-your-best-engineers
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@dahukanna@mastodon.social 2026-07-12 07:41
So the AI business “model” is: 1. NOT HIRING 📉 juniors to create human candidates for the specialists & experts with work experience. 2. BURNING OUT ☢️ mid-level engineers, hardware (prices rising), infrastructure consumed unsustainably (water & electricity) to make everyone “addicted” to AI-LLM word & sentence calculator. 3. PUSHING OUT 📉 experienced senior-level engineers who advise & set tech strategy for “the business”. This is the “Kodak” & “Boeing” business downfall case studies combined.