Lost all the lead engineers in my org. Now I'm the most senior.

God help us all.

Maybe it's a sign to follow the lead of your ex-leads and also jump the ship :p

Are they replacing those people with AI agents?

@whimsical yea I love lungdart he's the best guy on devrant. 10/10

Maybe stop adding arsenic to the cooler water they drink?

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let me guess, the CEO wanted to replace everybody with AI?

@kiki Oh, darling, if I were adding anything, it'd be a dash of reality to your delusions—keep dreaming.

OK, I'm not shamelessly linking my own story again… but I wrote about the exact same situation a few years back. An old, grumpy senior dev created a total mess of a codebase because he was bored and wanted to try new things. And when that wasn't working, he left the company. Suddenly I was responsible for that abomination and expected to keep the deadlines. I feel you, man.

Update. My immigration status is bring reviewed and I've been put on PTO.

Time to get the resume out!

I was at a mortgage company and after three years, I was the most senior person on the devops team. There were a lot of new people and the entire old team had attritioned.

A junior dev got promoted to manager after the last one got fired for job desertion. None of us were even allowed to apply for the position; they hired a director externally and promoted the junior. He did deserve it (he found like $100k/month in AWS waste) but many of us hadn't had pay increases in three years either.

@kiki Are you confessing through projecting?