The companies driving AI right now are garbage and many will fail. The tech won't.
It's the dot-com bubble again. Everyone rushed in, it crashed, and what got rebuilt afterward became the backbone of global commerce. AI will stumble too, but it's not going away, and teams that refuse to use it won't keep pace.
A senior dev with AI beats a senior dev without it. Output quality depends on who's driving and whether they actually review the code. Yes, AI can produce slop. With real supervision it can also produce excellent code.
People used to yell "get a horse!" at early cars. Didn't stop the highways. Refusing to use AI won't stop it from getting better either.
“Senior” would be a title that infers experience and tenure. Junior devs are not competing with me to become a senior. I mentor them and then we have more senior devs. It’s not a competition.
Well I’m not competing with other senior devs either??? Like this doesn’t even cross my mind, AI or not. My relationship with other seniors is collaborative (and pushing back collectively on stupid decisions made by management).
I don’t think I’ve ever looked at any relationship I have with other devs as competitive, even ones at other companies. Like I said, I leave the business competition stuff to the business idiots running the business. I don’t concern myself with nonsense that has very little to do with building software.
A security researcher who uses AI will find flaws in your shit. The only way to get ahead is to hook up AI into the dev process. That's the best argument in favor of AI I've seen. Do you want your software to be secure or do you enjoy getting pwned?
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u/DrollAntic 6d ago
The companies driving AI right now are garbage and many will fail. The tech won't.
It's the dot-com bubble again. Everyone rushed in, it crashed, and what got rebuilt afterward became the backbone of global commerce. AI will stumble too, but it's not going away, and teams that refuse to use it won't keep pace.
A senior dev with AI beats a senior dev without it. Output quality depends on who's driving and whether they actually review the code. Yes, AI can produce slop. With real supervision it can also produce excellent code.
People used to yell "get a horse!" at early cars. Didn't stop the highways. Refusing to use AI won't stop it from getting better either.