I view programming as a trade. I’ve spent years honing my skills, I pass wisdom to junior engineers as I can. I review code and provide detailed alternatives.

I view programming as a trade. I’ve spent years honing my skills, I pass wisdom to junior engineers as I can. I review code and provide detailed alternatives. My concern with AI across all fields are that people won’t gain the fundamental skills necessary for moving the bounds of what’s possible. Certainly, tools like this AI could produce good results. However, the underlying human is still providing the training data. More importantly, humans are producing the trajectory of development. If humans are no longer capable of pushing the AI systems. Then the AI systems will either cease to improve, or the AI systems will learn to play off each other. In highly complex systems like many programs, I suspect they’ll play off each other and achieve local minimum/maximum locations. Ie because the “game” (program development) can be iterative they’ll constantly improve code. However, because the AI systems don’t interact with all data (particularly real-world data) when a customer shows a sad face at some UI/UX, it won’t completely develop a new feature that matches the desires of the customer. Where I fear this will leave us is a class of less-skilled engineers and overly optimized AI. Basically, stuck in development.