[DesiLurker]

personally I feel they would turn out to be useful for new developer but its likely new devs will suffer 'developmental disability' (excuse the pun) after using them for significant period. This very akin to our (Gen Xer's) parents telling us not to rely on calculator for math problems. I know there is a stack overflow rebuttal to that and chatGPT could be very valuable there, especially if it avoids sifting through manpages to discover basic functionality.

I think one area AI assistants may be very useful is to do standard code quality and advanced linter style code review. I cant remember how many times I have seen engineers give 'cosmetic' CR feedback and completely miss big structural issues. If this makes everybody focus on deeper issues then I am all for it.

I work in embedded software and often I see the code quality coming out of SoC vendors is just full of bad practices. If AI can be a good code acceptance tool especially for last minute fixes we should jump on it.