@Purple The sad thing is, it's not just senior engineers. It's systems administrators as well - though the enshittification of the mind started happening long before AI. That started around the time that folks started using containers (Docker, K8s, etc.) and gave up trying to understand how their systems worked. And why would they - they can just trash the container and grab another one, right?

Well, it's lead to a LOT of brain rot and now we're seeing the effects of this all up and down the tech stack. Add in AI to the mix and it's all just an unreliable mess - sysadmins just going to the Magic Words Generator(tm) to get steps to "solve" problems that just create more and leave it for the increasingly few of us who care to clean up.