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In my experience, ChatGPT and Copilot are just cutting out the middle step of a process developers have followed since the internet made problem solving more democratic. ChatGPT and Copilot are effectively StackOverflow, except faster. Right now, you still need to be an experienced developer to spot the hallucinations, but I see AI as a tool, not a replacement.

I remember developers were saying similar things about how jQuery was going to make developers lazy because they weren't writing manual queries and Javascript code (especially for things like XMLHttpRequest) and it just made developers more efficient. People said the same thing about Ruby on Rails, how it allowed developers to work with Ruby without having to really know Ruby. The same thing for database ORM's. Developers decried they would make developers lazy and not know how to write manual database queries.