[Daedren]

It's a problem. Seniors with AI perform far better because they have the skills and experience to properly review the LLM's plans and outputs.

Juniors don't have that skillset yet, but they're being pushed to use AI because their peers are using it. Where do you draw the line?

What will happen when the current senior developers start retiring? What will happen when a new technology shows up that LLMs don't have human-written code to be trained on? Will pure LLM reasoning and generated agent skills be enough to bridge the gap?

It's all very interesting questions about the future of the development process.

[freedomben]

Indeed, great (though scary) questions to ponder. There are two possibilities I see:

1. AI gets better enough fast enough that by the time the senior people are retiring, it won't matter anyway

2. Software becomes mostly unreadable and nobody really understands how it works, but the AI is good enough that this is ok

Both are hard for me to imagine right now, but if you'd asked me five years ago if AI would ever be good enough to commit to my codebase, I would have said, "I really doubt it". Yet here we are, AI code is sometimes better than handwritten code (depending on the person of course).

Would love to hear others thoughts on these as well.