61 points NotAnOtter | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 22:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.334s | 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.

1. aristofun ◴[05 Jul 25 02:57 UTC] No.44469800[source]▶

>>44468375 (OP) #

Yep, your company is pretty much doomed.

CEO can afford being somewhat ignorant about the nature of engineering work or how llms work (still a red flag for a tech company).

But CTO being that stupid (if you don’t exaggerate) leaves little room for doubts.

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