I didn’t say anything about job security. I actually think it’s a great tool for great devs and makes them that much more invaluable.
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Yes I agree. The issue I see is that modern juniors might not even catch that there is a big problem with the code snippet generated in the picture above that might cost the business a lot of money. But if they would instead tried to read up how to build a message queue that would have immediately avoided that.
This is the very single issue I have with vibe coding. You might take away the opportunity to learn from yourself
Yeah, I understand. I never planned on learning so it works for me but I can see how it may harm those who do want to be full time devs and do it correctly.
You're comparing a bad coder with AI against a good coder without AI. What you should be worried about if at all is a good coder with AI.
Good or bad, everyone will use AI. Once it exists there is no going back. If anyone denies it and tries to get by without it, they will be uncompetitive with the rest.
This is not about whether seniors should use AI (they should). The only thing I am worried about is juniors who use AI instead of learning.
A friend of mine told me that most of his classmates “cheated” through their DSA class using AI. I see no future in software for those people.
If you don't use AI as a dev, your job isn't secure.
How long before the dev isn't needed at all?
If you use AI as a dev, your code isn't secure.