[Kon5ole]

I think AI copilots are great for coding. The IDE and compiler are a second source of truth so you can quickly eliminate AI generated nonsense and figure out what kind of problems it is good at solving.

To me the effect seems similar to going from assembly language to C or from C to Java or Visual Basic. It's a new level of abstraction that saves massive amounts of time.

I think the amount of work for software developers will increase just like it did back then. Many software projects are never started because they will be too expensive. If they can be done by half the number of people in half the time using AI tools, they might get a "go" instead.