Hehe, good point.

people need to read more code, play around with it, break it and fix it to become better programmers.

I think AI bots can help with that. It's easier now to play around with code which you could not write by yourself, and quickly explore different approaches. And while you might shy away from asking your colleagues a noob question, ChatGPT will happily elaborate.

In the end, it's just one more tool in the box. We need to learn when and how to use it wisely.

I browsed author own codebase and the first thing I saw is 150 lines of C# reimplementing functions available in the .NET standard lib.

There are a LOT of superficial devs out there. You dont even have to be interviewing junior devs. Plenty of them out there at medium and senior levels. They existed before LLMs were spitting code like today, and this will undoubtedly lower the bar for bad developers to enter. It remains to be seen if this can help the gold developers in a meaningful way.

Thx for saving me a click. We are full of options and nobody has data. Down voting the post.

Welcome to the Internet. Pontification is all we've got. Now we've got LLMs regurgitating the old pontifications to make new ones.

I came in with your same expectations and found the same shit. Just some opinion formed on the basis of "concern".

I don't think it's making devs worse, however I do think it's significantly lowering the bar to entry to the point where people who don't have enough knowledge to actually do the job well are becoming proceedingly common. Theoretically they should get weeded out by a good interview process but corporate be corporate

Not that my opinion is worth anything, it's not like I have anything to back it up.

Please disregard any takes I may have

We’ve all read this post multiple times. Isn’t it just the “young people are lazy” that’s been going around for thousands of years?

https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/

At most it’s a tangent on it…

Exactly what I suspected. How could you even truly prove such a thing

I’ll bet people said the same thing when Intellisense started suggesting lines completions.

And when errors were highlighted in the code rather than console output.

And when high-level languages started appearing.

https://codeberg.org/

A thing that hallucinates uncompilable code but somehow convinces your boss it's a necessary tool.

Copilot is a tool for programmers who don't want program.

An LLM that propose autocompletion for whole line/function.

I agree. Those who make bold claims like "AI is making programmers worse" neither has any first-hand experience with AI tools nor has any contact with how programmers are using them in their day-to-day business.

Let's think about this for a second: one feature of GitHub Copilot is the /explain command, which is used to put together a synthetic description of what a codebase does. Please someone tell me how a programmer gets worse at their job by having a tool that helps him understand any codebase anywhere.