AI Hides Complexity

CURRENT SITUATION SAD ENGINEERS PILE OF COMPLEXITY (LANGUAGES, TOOLCHAINS, INFRA) APPS HAPPY NON-ENGINEERS WHAT PEOPLE THINK AI WILL DO AI! HIDDEN PILE OF COMPLEXITY THAT NO LONGER MATTERS APPS WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN SAD ENGINEERS NEW PILE OF COMPLEXITY (AI PIPELINES, TEMPLATES, ETC) AI SADDER ENGINEERS OLD PILE OF COMPLEXITY APPS

A three-panel comic shows engineers struggling with a pile of complexity made of languages, toolchains, and infrastructure. Non-engineers imagine AI will hide that complexity, but the final panel shows a new pile of AI pipelines and templates added on top of the old one, making engineers even sadder. It is shared as a humorous reaction to the idea that AI eliminates software complexity when it often creates another layer of it. EN: A three-panel comic shows engineers struggling with a pile of complexity made of languages, toolchains, and infrastructure. Non-engineers imagine AI will hide that complexity, but the final panel shows a new pile of AI pipelines and templates added on top of the old one, making engineers even sadder. It is shared as a humorous reaction to the idea that AI eliminates software complexity when it often creates another layer of it.

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