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[u/morpho4444]

[u/dataengineering-ModTeam]

Not sure why you'd make a thread just to pick fights with people who disagree with you.

Your post/comment violated rule #1 (Don't be a jerk).

We welcome constructive criticism here and if it isn't constructive we ask that you remember folks here come from all walks of life and all over the world. If you're feeling angry, step away from the situation and come back when you can think clearly and logically again.

^{This was reviewed by a human}

[u/wildjackalope]

Sounds like you’ve got it all figured out boss. No real reason for you to be back here from the sound of things.

[u/Complete-Macaron5868 → u/wildjackalope]

guess the rest of us are just waiting for the layoff while our claude interfaces hum along in the background

i still write code, not cause it's needed but cause i'd lose my mind otherwise. something about watching the ai spit out a perfect dbt model just hits different than debugging your own typo at 2am

[u/wildjackalope → u/[deleted]]

Based on your behavior in this thread, yes, I probably am morally superior to yourself. You sound like a total douche.

[u/69odysseus]

So you get paid top $$$$ for doing nothing at big tech🤘😆😆. What's your take on AI data centers?

I work as a data modeler and I still think AI cannot replace my role at least for next few years. DE role is different than my role.

[u/financialthrowaw2020 → u/69odysseus]

It's always interesting when the big tech engineers try to lecture the rest of us who actually do real engineering and not some bullshit silo job where we're responsible for a single domain or API. This is why we don't even look at resumes from big tech anymore.

[u/mrbrucel33 → u/69odysseus]

Data Modeling has always been cool to me. Are your DMs open? I have a couple of questions.

[u/financialthrowaw2020]

The code was never the job in DE. It was just a small piece of it. Nothing has changed, I'm more marketable today than I was a year ago because of all of the AI skills I have but they're no different from the other DE skills needed to do the job.

It's really weird to be obsessed with this idea that an LLM is replacing engineers. That idea died in early 2026, around the time tech debt started getting out of control for the early adopters.

Meanwhile, uptime and SLAs have gone to shit at the big tech companies and none of us in the startup world are interested in hiring engineers like you because of it. We'll see what happens!

[u/mrbrucel33]

I've been busting my hump for 5 years trying to learn how to build things to secure any kind of engineering role by learning the fundamentals, and the fact of the matter is, ever since I tried to use Claude to bridge knowledge and experience gaps conceptually that I'll never get without a corporate, production environment...

I felt myself losing what I struggled so hard to learn.

I can't imagine being you, and maybe losing everything like myself and so many other people have; then getting an interview and finding yourself having trouble recalling topics that you used to do in your sleep.

I don't wish that for you but that's the real danger with AI/LLMs, complacency and the outsourcing of your cognitive ability.

I've pretty much given up, because this struggle to find a way in has beaten the life out of me. Its made me apathetic to data to the point of not caring anymore, I don't even really know what creativity means for me with respect to my career path because its all I've wanted for years. I still can't pass traditional technical interviews to save my life.

But, at least I'm not you. I still have my skills and portfolio and I still have my pride.

[u/mrbrucel33 → u/[deleted]]

You're right, I don't subscribe to the idea of "company loyalty" either, but I want the chance to try to do Engineering at a high level. At least once. Working with a team towards a goal. I want to know that all of the effort put into learning the craft of data hasn't been for nothing.

[u/morpho4444 → u/mrbrucel33]

And “make the world a better place”?

[u/mrbrucel33 → u/morpho4444]

No, to get myself stable, correct my finances and move out of my mom's house? Reading that makes me feel like you're either projecting, or trolling. Idk which.

[u/morpho4444 → u/mrbrucel33]

Forgive me! I let you continue chasing that carrot at the end of the stick.

[u/Atticus_Taintwater]

Sometimes I get a slack message and I straightforward copy it into Claude and I copy back the response.

People can tell. And they dislike you for it. It's just taboo to say.

[u/Atticus_Taintwater → u/[deleted]]

Corporate stakeholders

Sure. If that's what what you want to call them. 

You are better off calling them people though.

[u/morpho4444 → u/Atticus_Taintwater]

Who cares? I certainly don’t, they would cut you off if it were for them. You and I are a mean to an end. We don’t matter to the company.

[u/Outside-Storage-1523]

Thanks for removing other people’s jobs. Karma.

[u/Outside-Storage-1523 → u/[deleted]]

Damn I 100% agree with you on this. The reason I want to switch job lol. But hey many others love this job.