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> Because instead of writing code, they’re spending - wasting? - a ton of time fixing AI coding blunders. This is not a productive use of mid-level, never mind senior, programmers.

It’s amazing to think that humans have been writing blunder-free code all this time and only AI is making mistakes.

Humans coders, including good ones, make errors all the time and I don’t fully trust the code written by even my strongest team members (including myself; I’m far from the strongest programmer).





Problem is juniors are now pushing code that they don’t understand and have concluded they cannot understand because the AI is smarter than them

That is clearly a failure on the part of the seniors on their team - not AI.

I don’t blame the stupidity multipliers but I don’t love having them around

The claim is not that humans write fewer bugs than AI. The claim is that devoting senior time to fixing bugs in mass-produced AI code lowers overall quality.

This is true, but when good human developers introduce bugs, at least their code adheres to a thoughtful software design that matches expectations. My experience with AI code is its much less likely to meet that criteria.



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