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61 points NotAnOtter | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.294s | source

My company is increasingly pushing prompt engineering as the single way we "should" be coding. The CEO & CTO are both obsessed with it and promote things like "delete entire unit test file & have claude generate a new one" rather than manually address test failures.

I'm a 'senior engineer' with ~5 years of industry experience and am considering moving on from this company because I don't want

1. Be pushed into a workflow that will cause my technical growth to stall or degrade 2. Be overseeing a bunch of AI-generated spaghetti 2-3 years from now

Feel free to address my specific situation but I'm interested in more general opinions.

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qualeed ◴[] No.44468797[source]
Is it worth leaving? Hard to say for your specific situation, there's thousands of variables that no one here will ever know. Unless you are a superstar or independently wealthy, it's typically a bad idea to leave a job before you have something else lined up.

Is it worth looking? Absolutely! It will be much easier to make a decision when you're comparing your current position to a job offer, rather than comparing your current position to an unknown. I would also add, no matter what you feel about your current job, it's always a good idea to keep feelers out there for new positions. The fastest way up the rank and salary ladders is moving to new positions. It will always outpace internal promotions.

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kazinator ◴[] No.44469006[source]
Assume OP is talking about grabbing a new rope before letting go of another one; otherwise we are mixing generalities about career moves not specific to the issue in the topic.
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1. qualeed ◴[] No.44469085[source]
>generalities about career moves not specific to the issue in the topic.

They explicitly asked for general opinions, and provided almost no context which would let me be more specific.

"Is it worth leaving position over push to adopt X" is not exclusive to AI, nor is it a new question, so I addressed the general case.