Trying to wring some useful insights out of the roiling AI discourse: today I want to talk a little bit about Senior Engineer Essentialism. As with many AI Coding things, this is not a *new* problem, but it is now a *worse* problem.
According to my hazy recollection, circa 2012 we started seeing a rash of forgettable blog posts about "what it really means to be a senior software engineer".
There is no such thing as a senior software engineer. 🧵
@glyph my title got unexpectedly upgraded to ‘senior’ when I started at my current employer, after trying and failing to get promoted at the previous job. I’ve got ~10 years more experience than some coworkers who had the title before I did. But they had several years more experience with parts of the tech stack (and conversely I’ve done a bunch of other stuff that not everyone else has, which is useful too).
It’s at least taught me not to set too much store by the adjective, anyway.
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