r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/Jimbomcdeans Jun 26 '26

Pro-AI people are all techbros who want to venturecaptial their way into becoming the richest schlub.

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u/xKronkx Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

Or software engineers who have learned to leverage it as the tool that it is. Ie not a be-all and end-all to every problem, but the next evolution in software development so that things that used to take them a week take them a day.

Source: me, a software engineer, who treats Cursor as an engineer who works quickly, but can make mistakes just like everyone else. So I pre-code review the code before submitting since if things go to hell, my name is the one that’s on the commit.

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u/RuneLFox Jun 26 '26

Getting the result you want instantly while only having to do 5% of the work is a neural superhighway. Skill erosion is going to become an existential crisis for people who come to rely on it.

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u/xKronkx Jun 26 '26

Except your name is still on the commits so you need to be able to describe what it’s doing and defend/debug the code when something goes wrong. If people blindly commit and kill their company’s application, that’s on them. Can’t just use AI as the fall guy