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Last job, year ago as of today, worked at small software dev. We were all talking about AI's usefulness.
No one, not a soul from the CEO down misunderstood the applications. Yeah, it's great for getting over a hump. Stuck? Meh, maybe the LLM will kick out a useful path I hadn't known or considered. Got around a problem with PowerShell and Google Calendar, made a neat integration, far faster than I could have figured it myself. All I got was a couple of lines of code, all I needed, wrote the rest myself. Kinda like stealing code off any given site, but faster. Wonderful tool, really!
End of story. AI isn't writing end-to-end working code, as some leaders think. It's a damned useful tool for getting around roadblocks, so yeah, you can code faster. We were all amazed. But no one thought it was intelligent or would replace us. But in the end, we'll need fewer dev hours. Sorry. That's simply true for competent firms.
Yep, and the general public is too stubborn to accept a little thing like nuance. Neither are the CEO assholes that can't stop talking about layoffs and replacing jobs, out in the open.
And all the boilerplate. And the test cases. And the CLI one liners. Maybe even small refactorings.
AI is amazing when used correctly.