> You were never expected to understand every service and every database. But at least someone did and would explain it to you. This hasn't been my experience.

> You were never expected to understand every service and every database. But at least someone did and would explain it to you. This hasn't been my experience. Especially when it comes to enterprise software, eventually everyone that was involved with the design of and iteration on a system will have left the company. Yet, often those systems need to continue running because they support "legacy" customers (who sometimes actually tend to be more economically valuable to the company than the customers on the shiny new system). Before AI, in these cases you just had to dive into the code and start trying to understand it yourself from zero. Usually, you would come to a very limited understanding of the system, just enough to fix the latest bug or keep it running until it hit another issue. I'm not sure why it's necessarily worse to rely on an agent to do this for you these days.