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It’s just a new tool. It isn’t outsourcing. It sounds like the person you’re replying to uses it the same way I do which is basically as a way to quickly brainstorm solutions. It acts as a rubber duck that forces you to explain the problem clearly but it has the added benefit of suggesting mostly correct code. It’s a bit like pair programming where you’re telling it the high level things to do and it’s hammering out the boilerplate while you also review in real time and point out mistakes as they happen.

I think you’re completely wrong about new devs producing worse code with this new tool. On the contrary, they’re going to be able to learn things it took you years to master in a matter of months since they now have a private tutor/mentor/reviewer/domain expert/consultant on call 24/7 for $20 a month.

As for using generated content as input, Microsoft has published a few papers showing that using curated generated content can be used to train specialized models that are more competent in their domain than the original models and the kicker is they didn’t even use humans to curate the content, they just used existing language models!