| ? 'mediocrity' ? Do you even know what your job is? Your job as a developer is not to produce brilliant code - it's to produce code that is so standard, disciplined, off-the-shelf and normative that it's utterly boring. That is exactly what the AI is good at - 'the boring standard'. -> AI is not harming anyone's cognitive abilities. -> Cost of AI is marginal - $200/mo for a tool while devs earn >>$100K, is the cost of tires on a car -> Token prices are dropping by 90% per year, today's AI is already pretty good, it will be a commodity soon, but we'll continue to pay probably even more than $200/mo because the value is there. I taught myself BASIC in the 1980's and there's code I wrote in the 1990's that is literally still in production to this day. There's probably a decent chance that I've had code in production since before you were born. Over the span of those decades, it's very clear that there's a fundamental transformation, which is totally unassailable. |