@technolyze @judgedread Yeah, like, Google had to create "Staff Engineer" and "Principal Engineer" to move the senior guys somewhere when they declined to move into management and they ran out of salary brackets and started bleeding the guys that wanted to hack instead of manage but that wanted more money than Google would pay.

Book 6 of the Tao of Programming:

> But when told this, the programmer once more refused, saying, "I exist so that I can program. If I were promoted, I would do nothing but waste everyone's time. Can I go now? I have a program that I'm working on."

And I saw that chart: the LLMs have increased productivity for senior engineers but they've actually caused a productivity *drop* for the junior ones that adopt them. This is a thing that doesn't make sense to the tech companies but makes perfect sense to the engineers.