AI, LLMs and Software Engineering Careers

AI arrived in engineering orgs faster than anyone worked out what to do with it. These episodes cover reviewing code nobody actually wrote, managers who mandate LLM use, teammates whose output quality quietly changed, and the question underneath all of it: is this job still going to exist.

20 episodes of Soft Skills Engineering, the weekly advice podcast where Dave Smith and Jamison Dance answer software engineers' questions. Every episode is free, and each page below has the listener's question in full.

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Every episode about AI at work

  1. Episode 525: How do I save my company of 500 people and my new company is insane with AI
  2. Episode 524: My CTO AI-codes big piles of slop and early mornings, late meetings
  3. Episode 520: I came back to my former team and was shocked by AI and my team does not care at ALL about the code
  4. Episode 513: Forgotten employee and what skills actually matter in the AI world
  5. Episode 512: Can non-engineers really contribute code with AI and not sharing
  6. Episode 509: I hate AI software dev, so should I become a manager and leading, not doing
  7. Episode 506: I hate my job with AI and my team-mate thinks I suck
  8. Episode 504: Should I quit my AI job before my first day and professional button-clicker
  9. Episode 503: Hardware is hard and my PMs are pushing AI slop code
  10. Episode 502: Management keeps leaving and I hate using AI to code
  11. Episode 501: Vibecoding CEO and doing to teaching
  12. Episode 485: I'm terrible at hiring decisions and my coworker spams us with AI-generated memes
  13. Episode 478: Can you coach self-awareness and my boss is an llm
  14. Episode 476: How much help is too much help and guarding against slop
  15. Episode 472: Should my junior dev use AI and thrown in to ETL
  16. Episode 464: Rehiring an overpaid boomerang and AI has taken over my teammate's brain
  17. Episode 454: Tracking productivity? and my CTO is ChatGPT
  18. Episode 446: Wading through AI slop and they don't get git
  19. Episode 432: As an LLM, how can I be more emotionally smart and when to use I vs we?
  20. Episode 342: Losing my job to AI and bad review season

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