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There's no downside for you. You said it yourself - you have the knowledge and ability to know what to ignore and keep what makes sense, but that's because you
by ryandvm 2mo ago
There's no downside for you.
You said it yourself - you have the knowledge and ability to know what to ignore and keep what makes sense, but that's because you spent years actually writing and understanding code.
The magic wand of AI is absolutely wreaking havoc with juniors engineers' ability to understand complex code bases and software engineering fundamentals. How will the engineers of tomorrow know what to keep and what to reject if all they've ever known is "you are a principal engineer. read this Jira ticket and build a solution. ultrathink".
- glimshe 2mo agoWhat you said is different from being radically opposed to AI in all situations. You're saying that junior engineers should keep learning the fundamentals of software development instead of fully relying on AI. I agree with that. Inexperienced people shouldn't be left alone with dangerous tools, so to speak, but it doesn't mean that we should abandon these tools. I think that junior engineers can learn from AI, but the corporate setting isn't the best place for self-learning from AI. There's a lot to be learned from the average advice from the better AIs, as long as they are trying to understand the feedback. Please note that for these engineers, AI is replacing the old copy-and-paste from Stack Overflow. At least with AI they can dig deeper and ask questions.