[rbongers]

I don't think it's quite the same. We live in an inbetween time - AI is not quite there yet.

AI struggles with knowledge from after its training date (so it can't help very well for anything relating to new versions of libraries) and often just generally gets things wrong or comes up with suboptimal answers. It's still only optimized to create answers that look correct, after all.

With these problems, someone on the team still needs to understand or be able to figure out what's going on. And dangit if it isn't getting hard to hire for that.

And the day that AI can actually replace the work of junior devs is just going to cause more complications for the software industry. Who will get the experience to become senior devs? Who will direct them? And even if those people also get replaced eventually, we will still probably have more awkward inbetween times with their own problems.

Can't say it's not convenient, but no use pretending the challenges don't exist.