I didn't say don't use AI at all, I said give it the boilerplate, rote work. Developers can still work on more interesting things. Maybe not all the interesting things.
replyThat may be fine ... if it remains your choice. I'm saying companies are outmoding people (programmers, designers, managers, et al) who don't leverage AI to do their job the fastest. If one programmer uses AI to do boilerplate and then codes the interesting bits personally and it takes a week and another does it all with AI (orchestrating agents, etc) and it takes 2 hours and produces the same output (not code but business value), the AI orchestrator/manager will be valued above the former.
replyI get your point, but I think smart people will figure out a balance. That 2 hours of output could take a week to debug and test.
replyYes! I am not advocating for the 2 hours and the "vision" of managers and CEOs. Quite the contrary. But it is the world we live in for now. It's messy and chaotic and many people may (will?) be hurt. I don't like it. But I'm trying to be one of the "smart people". What does that look like? I hope I find out.
replyI don't like it, either. I hear people ranting about doing "everything with AI" on one meeting, and what a productivity boost it is, then I get tagged on a dumpster fire PR full of slop and emoji filled log statements. Like did you even look at your code at all? "Oh sorry I don't know how that got in there!"
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