I get excellent productivity gains from AI. Not everywhere, and not linearly. It makes the bad stuff about the work (boilerplate, dealing with things outside my

I get excellent productivity gains from AI. Not everywhere, and not linearly. It makes the bad stuff about the work (boilerplate, dealing with things outside my specialties) tolerable and the good stuff a bit better. It makes me want to create more. Business guys missing some visualization? Hell why not, few minutes on Aider and it's there. Let's improve our test suites. And let's migrate away from that legacy framework or runtime! But my workflow is anything but "let her rip". It's very calculated, orderly, just like mastering any other tool. I'm always in the loop. I can't imagine someone without serious experience getting good stuff, and when things go bad, oh boy you're bringing a firehose of crap into your org. I have a junior programmer who's a bright kid but lacking a lot of depth. Got him a Cursor subscription, tracking his code closely via PRs and calling out the BS but we're getting serious work done. I just can't see how this new situation calls for less programmers. It will just bring about more software, surely more capable software after everyone adjusts.