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by unnouinceput 12 days ago
I actually love this deskilling. It means your project will accumulate unseen consequences that at one point in the future, several hiring churns done meanwhile, you'll need to hire an actual competent programmer to untangle the entire spaghetti code. And don;t come at me with "but AI will be able to do just that". Yeah, the same way that OS'es kept growing in size with each hardware leap (remember 1 GB XP installation was a shock?), the same way the code that better models will spit out will grow too. And then when 20 prompts later the AI will hallucinate a shitload of new classes, the boss is going to finally be at the crossroads "scratch this and restart or pay the consultant a crapload of money" question. And I will wait just around the corner to be that consultant. For me the future is looking bright actually.