I really wanted to call this “The AI trap,” but I try not to ascribe to malice what I could explain with ignorance, apathy, and/or stupidity, and given that I generally don’t ascribe the level of foresight and deliberation needed to execute a “trap” to the types of people running large public companies, “trap” isn’t the right word. But even so, this push to start using AI to do as much as humanly possible has already generated content about the plight of junior devs. What I’m worried about is senior developers (yes, I am technically considered a “senior” dev, so there is some self-interest here) are about to walk themselves into a nasty setup they’re never going to recover from.
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