alt Hacker NewsIt's bad for building your resume. Managers and employees are rewarded for popular thing. Popularity is mostly a function of novelty. So the (social and therefore economic) incentive structure is inversely correlated with choosing boring technology.
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devin • today at 8:24 PM
Try to explain that part of an imagined "Agentic AI Everything" product being built would be cheaper and more efficient as a simple function call. Good luck!
I see it as analogous to people are frequently rewarded for putting out the fire instead of preventing the fire.