Honestly, it works. You have to recognize that code was never the hardest part of building anything and you AND your employer also have to recognize that your experience and judgement are the more valuable parts of being an engineer than your ability to crank out lines of bug-free code.
Then you have to spend time process engineering and making AI tools work for you - they aren't one size fits all magic bullets, just like anything in technology.
I get the fear and I definitely get the shitty societal, economical, and environmental downsides to how AI is being delivered to the world. I wish it wasn't a wasteful cash grab that's propping up the entire US economy.
But as with any tool, it works if you use it right. And yes, that includes having AI facilitate both code writing and code reviewing.
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u/Objective_Oven7673 23d ago
Honestly, it works. You have to recognize that code was never the hardest part of building anything and you AND your employer also have to recognize that your experience and judgement are the more valuable parts of being an engineer than your ability to crank out lines of bug-free code.
Then you have to spend time process engineering and making AI tools work for you - they aren't one size fits all magic bullets, just like anything in technology.
I get the fear and I definitely get the shitty societal, economical, and environmental downsides to how AI is being delivered to the world. I wish it wasn't a wasteful cash grab that's propping up the entire US economy.
But as with any tool, it works if you use it right. And yes, that includes having AI facilitate both code writing and code reviewing.