Our CTO is now convinced we should replace our entire dev and QA team (~100 people) with AI agents. Inspired by SoftBank’s “thousand-agent per employee” vision and hyped tools like Devin, AutoDev, etc. Firstly he will terminate contract with all outsource vendor, who is providing us most dev/tests What he said us”Why pay salaries when agents can build, test, deploy, and learn faster?”

This isn’t some struggling startup — we’ve shipped real products, we have clients, revenue, and complex requirements. If you’ve seen success stories — or trainwrecks — please share. I need ammo before we fire ourselves.

On like 30% of resumes I’ve read, It’s line after line of “Cutting frontend rendering issues by 27%”. “Accelerated deployment frequency by 45%” (Whatever that means? Not sure more deployments are something to boast about..)

But these resumes are line after line, supposed statistics glorifying the candidates supposed performance.

I’m honestly tempted to just start putting resumes with statistics like this in the trash, as I’m highly doubtful they have statistics for everything they did and at best they’re assuming the credit for every accomplishment from their team… They all just seem like meaningless numbers.

Am I being short sighted in dismissing resumes like this, or do people actually gather these absurdly in depth metrics about their proclaimed performance?

I see a lot of negativity towards take-home tests in both tech and other industries. In principle I agree: Don’t undervalue your time, the company might be exploiting you, your experience should speak for itself, etcetc, and I respect people who have this view.

But in my experience, I’ve had a lot of fun over my career doing the take-home tests for job interviews. It’s a nice break from the open-ended nature of personal projects and the complicated, stressful, multiple-stakeholder type work at my job.

I also find them a nice excuse to try a new language or try a new technique I haven’t had time to learn before. Of course I could do this on my own time, but the incentive of a better job at the end of it is a strong motivator.

It also leads to interesting conversation with the interviewers later.

I write code both professionally (6 YoE now) and for fun. I started in python more than a decade ago but gradually moved to C/C++ and to this day, I still write 95% of my code by hand. The only time I ever use AI is if I need to automate away some redundant work (i.e. think something like renaming 20 functions from snake case to camel case). And to do this, I don’t even use any IDE plugin or w/e. I built my own command line tools for integrating my AI workflow into vim.

Admittedly, I am living under a rock. I try to avoid clicking on stories about AI because the algorithm just spams me with clickbait and ads claiming to expedite improve my life with AI, yada yada.

So I am curious, should engineers who actually code by hand with minimal AI assistance be concerned about their future? There’s a part of me that thinks, yes, we should be concerned, mainly because non-tech people (i.e. recruiters, HR, etc.) will unfairly judge us for living in the past. But there’s …

I have 10 years of experience as a UI Engineer with FAANG an another big tech on my resume.

I have been looking at the market and I am seeing a concerning trend of startups “vibe coding” UI and caring even less about UI/UX practices.

We already lived an era of devaluation of the profession with far too many places I have been where UI development was offloaded to BE engineer as tech leadership considering that type of work only as “change button color”.

I am worried whether moving forward with the help of these tools we’ve seen only a demand in Backend engineers, even better if with product/UI experience, with a shift towards generalists vs specialists.

In my current tech company (2000+ people) there has been no hiring of FE engineers for the past 12-16 months, despite the struggle of internal teams.

Should Frontend Engineer immediately try to diversify and try to shift towards full stack/cloud roles?

First, thank you all for the exceptional help and support.

Following my original post First home server about 3 month ago, I guess with your help I have reached a good point here.

What I did till now:

• Adguard home as a DNS server & Ad-blocker
• Purchased a domain.com from cloudflare, got SSL in Caddy via DNS-01 challenge
• Tailscale to tunnel into my server while outside LAN
• Syncthing to my laptop and android for:
  • External library for Immich
  • External storage for Nextcloud
  • Joplin notes folder
• All volumes are bind mounts
• Backups are done by rsync script that runs (cron) every day at 05:00am, what it does is:
  • Stop all containers except tailscale > Run rsync > Restart all stopped containers Then I manually rsync again every week to external HDD.

It just works! and that’s annoying!

This sound strange but I was having a good time struggling to learn and deploy this server, the countless sleepless nights were just exciting and fun, now as it is stable and running …