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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
I think the senior engineer question is the important one here. AI can be an exceptional productivity booster if you have the strong software engineering principles and code review skills to prompt it/tweak into something of high quality.
I foresee companies relying on super productive senior engineers for a while, and then as they age out, there is going to be a huge hole to fill where juniors weren't given the space to do things slower themselves and develop into seniors.
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My company has embraced GitHub Copilot and I've been pretty bearish on it, and for pretty much this exact reason. I talk to my team and say that these are tools that can be helpful, much like using third party libraries are helpful, but ultimately you need to understand what they're doing. AI can't understand intent, and it can't do creative intent. It's foolish to lean entirely on AI.
I'm also pretty bearish on the entire AI industry given it's god awful impact on the environment, it's accelerating costs, and the fact that we're using models to train models which seems a lot like making photo copies of photo copies. Then you've got companies like CoreWeave who are doing Lazy Susan funding with Nvidia, and OpenAI getting funding from Softbank that just seems down right fraudulent, and OpenAI is heavily dependent on CoreWeave.
I'd be wary of trying to build businesses on the back of AI.