Glue Work Remains a Career Risk in the AI Era
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A Hacker News commentary argues that LLM-written code has not made glue work more valuable — it has made most of it less necessary. AI agents now let one engineer handle projects that once needed a small team, cutting coordination meetings, while fewer junior hires and LLM-generated write-only reports remove other glue tasks. The author still warns engineers not to delegate peer communication to an LLM or become "the glue work person." The piece offers no measured evidence for these effects; the claims are the author's assessment.
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- Hacker News · AIGlue work is still harmful in the age of AI
LLM-written code has not made glue work more valuable; it has made most of it less necessary. AI agents let one engineer handle projects that once needed a small team, cutting coordination meetings, while fewer junior hires and LLM-generated write-only reports remove other glue tasks. The author still warns engineers not to delegate peer communication to an LLM or become "the glue work person."
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