[havkom]

I agree. The state of level of “basic” knowledge in developers are dropping.

The consequences are that developers can tackle basic tasks which are supported by the frameworks they use, but once something is not supported or straightforward they don’t know what to do and get completely stuck.

From society’s point of view, the usefulness and value of the task force decreases and important problems are not solved or aren’t efficiently solved.

[surfingdino]

They don't know what they don't know. (Devs not knowing where to start writing a piece of code that works on actual bytes and not strings or numbers is a classic example of this problem.) Sometimes they are good devs in their space and mean well, but they spend their working lives on a different level of abstraction and in a different problem domain. The danger with co-pilots is that devs using them will even not know what to ask for, because they will not know what it is they need to write. There is value in going through docs, writing your own code, making mistakes, seeing your code fail, fixing it. That's how you learn to spot mistakes made by AI, but I don't think that having a coding puppy and spending time fixing its mistakes is conducive to writing better code or improving developer productivity.