Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

@ludicity For the record, I work at a software company that employs ~10k developers.

Before LLMs, I'd encounter such engineers a couple of times a month, but I interact with a lot of engineers, specifically the ones that need help or are new at the company or industry at large, so it's a selected sample. Even the most inexperienced ones are willing and able to learn with some guidance.

After LLMs, there's been a significant uptick, and these new ones are grossly incompetent, incurious, impatient, and behave like addicts if their supply of tokens is at all interrupted. If they run out of prompt credits, its an emergency because they claim they can't do any work at all. They can't even explain the architecture of what they are making anymore, and can't even file tickets or send emails without an LLM writing it for them, and they certainly lack in any kind of reading comprehension.

It's bleak and depressing, and makes me want to quit the industry altogether.

Come join us at NordicPGDay in #Helsinki to see Postgres professionals like Alexander Kukushkin (@cyberdemn) talk about "Rediscovering PgQ"!

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https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2026/sessions/session/7403-rediscovering-pgq/

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