[lanza]

> The argument is that, instead of hiring a junior engineer, a senior engineer can simply produce enough output to match what the junior would have produced and then some.

...and that's just as asinine of a claim as the original one

[Philpax]

Why? I can say that, in my personal experience, AI has allowed me to work more efficiently as a senior engineer: I can describe the behaviour I want, scan over the generated code and make any necessary fixes much faster than either writing the code myself or having a junior do it.