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I disagree on that; we lose the muscles we don't use and I've already seen that happening. It's also making people want to jump straight to implementation without proper design and I think that's a recipe for trouble.
Again, cowboys have been skipping steps and doing things lazily and poorly well before AI. Everyone knows people who jump straight into an IDE instead of following proper workflows. Yes, skills you don't practice take a hit. In a professional setting there is such a substantial productivity hit to avoid all AI use, compared to correct and proper use. It will soon be infeasible to take such at anti AI stance and remain in the industry
Of course, but I think not understanding what they're committing is more dangerous than before (even allowing for the classic "I copied and pasted this from xxxx site"). This is also true when people are fully trusting AI to review code as well.
We use AI for code reviews which I do find useful. It's still wrong part of the time (sometimes ridiculously so). So far, it's also failed to provide accurate documentation for various repos which seems like something rather basic. I'm not against all AI (though I do have ethical and environmental concerns with several of the commercial options). I will not have them write code for me, though.
As for the future, we'll just have to wait and see. I've seen a lot of AI budgets exceeded and/or cut. I do think it's not there yet for a number of tasks but is suitable (again minus certain concerns) for others.
This kind of reasoning applies to every new tool. 20 years ago I was saying the same thing about work from co-workers who started programming on Java and didn’t understand what their beloved HashMap actually does under the hood.
Eventually we adapt to either the new tools or to the new dangers, the ones who don’t just become fossils.
Another option is to stop using new tools and frameworks that don't benefit us. Adoption should be based on a good cost/benefit ratio, not treated as an inevitability.
It's also good to re-examine old choices and shitcan them when they're no longer earning their keep. We were using NiFi for something non-core that we do, and replacing it with a simple hand-coded solution gave us a massive performance bump that's more maintainable as well. Our use case was well outside NiFi's sweet spot, so we shouldn't have used it in the first place. But the person who made that decision is long gone, and it's always someone else who ends up having to clean up those messes. Here's hoping that someday I find that guy in a dark alley with no camera coverage.
IDK, cobol programmers still do well these days