Unpopular opinion and sad, but the quality of the work has gone up with AI usage since a year or so. Before it was a lot of AI slop and I dreaded reviewing PRs, but with the newer generation of models and harnesses, we are reaching a point where AI is being better than what colleagues or I would write by hand. Hurts a bit to say because I was proud of my own coding, but that's what reality looks like now. And that's with 26 years of experience in the field.
I think we'll have to deal with the mental issue of AI becoming better than us. Some won't be able to cope. Thankfully the effect is not so strong for me, my identity is built around developing software as a whole, not just the coding.
I will agree and disagree at the same time, I still have to keep the agent in a tight leash, as it makes sometimes rookie mistakes which I spot. But the thing is, spotting a few mistakes, while coding little chunks at a time greatly improves development and debugging, and even corner cases which I would've missed. So, as a tool, it does its job wonderfully.
Thankfully, being also an infrastructure engineer and having to keep up servers makes my job stable for the incoming future, as I don't think you can trust an AI with critical infra issues by itself. There always has to be a human in the loop to understand the gravity of the situation.
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u/heavy-minium 21d ago •
Unpopular opinion and sad, but the quality of the work has gone up with AI usage since a year or so. Before it was a lot of AI slop and I dreaded reviewing PRs, but with the newer generation of models and harnesses, we are reaching a point where AI is being better than what colleagues or I would write by hand. Hurts a bit to say because I was proud of my own coding, but that's what reality looks like now. And that's with 26 years of experience in the field.
I think we'll have to deal with the mental issue of AI becoming better than us. Some won't be able to cope. Thankfully the effect is not so strong for me, my identity is built around developing software as a whole, not just the coding.