Pamela FurstSenior Manager, Customer Success

At least Simon's direct

Name: At least Simon's direct
Uploaded: 2025-08-16T20:30:10+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Pamela Furst
Description: A new junior front-end engineer meets with Simon, a senior developer who enthusiastically shows off AI coding tools, then tells her she'll be out of a…

16 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A new junior front-end engineer meets with Simon, a senior developer who enthusiastically shows off AI coding tools, then tells her she'll be out of a job within two years. The junior calls a colleague in tears. Simon is blunt, but his message about AI replacing front-end work lands hard.

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They have a new junior front-end engineer join the team, and Simon is like all excited and is like, oh, schedules a call and let me show you how to use AI for coding. The junior dev calls Taylor after meeting with Simon in tears because apparently Simon, Simon got on his soapbox and was like, you especially are not going to have a job in 2 years. You're not gonna have a job. But you especially, because you are, not only are you junior, you are a front-end engineer. And AI is so good at writing front-end code. You especially will not have a job. Wow. Yeah. That is wild. Listen, if there's anything you can say about Simon is, uh, he says what's on his mind. Simon's direct.