Disclaimer: Work of fiction.

`I QUIT!`. These were words I wish I had not blurted out.

The line of cars going at a snail's pace on the highway reminds me of the crowd when there is a Blue Jays' giveaway at Rogers Centre. The urban sprawl has taken over this quaint town, it all started with a new data center that was built here. It seems hypocritical to complain, as I am part of the company that brought this here. Working at a big tech sounds all fun and dandy, until you realize you are just employee #1956 working on another wrapper that will host an AI code companions within your internal tools. The days go about using the company credits to test out the capability and token utilization (a scam in itself) of the newer models that are game changers. In a few months these game changers would be beaten by another model which is the same with a more specialized use case.

Is this software engineering anymore? I get a task in my sprint, I feed the ticket into my language optimized model, which would in turn spin up a workflow of other agents using specified models. An agent to read the reference code, the existing documentations and design decisions. Another agent that uses the information from these two to spin up code, another more advanced and expensive code review model. Finally the code is ready and the PR is generated. Which would then be caught by another advanced model to verify for any obvious security concerns and start the pipeline. The days I feel that hitting the enter key is a pain, I do the unspeakable crime of yolo-mode.

The only manual code I see would be from the Principal Devs who would update the agent instruction sets or code a new custom logger, just another wrapper project. All this would be caught by the agents in the next cycle of PRs and replicated as per the instructions without much thought. Has the agent even bothered looking into what actually goes on within these wrappers?

To get away from the drudge at the end of the day, I go to my short form content applications and start scrolling. It is interesting how day by day the information that they have on me grows. How did they know that I will be out of detergent next week? Their parent company does not own my shopping application or my bank. I brush it aside with my very smart logic that, I might have unknowingly stayed on a detergent page a few milliseconds more as it reminded me to buy...

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