What Charity Majors thinks about AI and jobs

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab. Co-author of "Database Reliability Engineering" and "Observability Engineering". Writes at charity.wtf about on-call, hierarchy, hiring and the engineer/manager pendulum.

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12 Aug 2026

Our readingWe cannot say what a junior engineer is worth because we cannot say what any engineer is worth; it is all vibes.

Their wordsThe hardest thing about quantifying the value of junior engineers is that we don't know how to quantify the value of any engineer. So it's all vibes.

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