Ask HN: How I find a job where what is needed is solid code, not firefighting?
Today I saw that post about AI destroying the future of West software. I remembered I am having a similar struggle with my jobs. Right now my life is like this: some company lost their senior, they hire me to replace. They expect me to produce code with same speed and same quality in 2 months. Then they realize they are late actually (one company for example was 6 months late to deliver to clients) and want me to use AI to churn out code even faster. Meanwhile I find out they lost all people that knew how things actually worked, there is no documentation, or worse, the documentation is outright wrong ( one project I worked had thousands of Jira tickets generated from a requisites document. After some months of politicking I got permission to see the requisites document and learned it was from another project entirely, they wasted years coding with the wrong requisites outright! ) Then as
Why it failed
Today I saw that post about AI destroying the future of West software. I remembered I am having a similar struggle with my jobs. Right now my life is like this: some company lost their senior, they hire me to replace. They expect me to produce code with same speed and same qualit
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- speeder
- Ended
- 2026
- Source
- hackernews