For a cynical take, 10, 15 years ago this headline would have been "Learn to code, ignore Stack Overflow, then use SO to code even better". In this context, AI

For a cynical take, 10, 15 years ago this headline would have been "Learn to code, ignore Stack Overflow, then use SO to code even better". In this context, AI is just one of many resources you can use - books, websites, SO, etc - to improve your coding. The big differentiator is that you can have a realtime conversation with AI, whereas when talking to other people - be it on SO, IRC, Github, forums etc - you may or may not get a response and it may or may not be helpful. AI tools are a bit more predictable that way. I'm of the opinion that AI will not replace developers but will be another tool in their arsenal. And part of the skillset of (some) developers will be working with an AI tool effectively. I don't have that yet, but then, I don't know much about Docker / K8S, cloud providers, low level memory management, pure functional coding, Rust, graphics programming etc etc either.