It has been interesting. The good guys got better with AI. The C grade guys mostly get confused, or follow hallucinations for a lot longer before they realise it’s a dead end. If anything AI seems to make it easier to see who is good and who isn’t.
Ironically on the token use leader boards the C guys are crushing it.
Edit: I was worried about Claude+junior myself but it’s not working out that way. It’s like giving an apprentice access to a full woodworking shop full of tools and expecting fine joinery, but getting a high school spice rack and 2 tons of sawdust
It’s interesting — my own impression kinda matches that; I’m still doing most of the thinking when using AI that I’d do before writing the code, it’s just that now the feedback loop is so much faster.
One of the artists at my company described generative AI as “I get none of the fun of actually drawing the thing and all of the work of fixing it so it works properly with what we need”. That’s not how I feel about it in relation to writing code.
Maybe I’m just tired and AI has made things interesting again.
Ironically on the token use leader boards the C guys are crushing it.
Edit: I was worried about Claude+junior myself but it’s not working out that way. It’s like giving an apprentice access to a full woodworking shop full of tools and expecting fine joinery, but getting a high school spice rack and 2 tons of sawdust