I don't expect AI to replace me anytime soon, but...
AI is already letting me care less about the languages I use and focus more on the algorithms. AI helps me write tests. AI suggests improvements and catches bugs before compiling. AI writes helper scripts/tools for me. All of these things are good enough for me to accept paying a few hundred dollars every month, although I don't have to because my employer already does do that for me.
6 months ago I was arguing that AI wasn't very good and code was more precise than english for specifying solutions. The first part is not true anymore for many things I care about. The second is still true but for many things I care about it doesn't matter.
I'm getting tired of articles that try to tell me what to think about AI. "AI is great and will replace all programmers!"... "AI sucks and will ruin your brain and codebase!"... both of these are tired and meaningless arguments.
AI is already letting me care less about the languages I use and focus more on the algorithms. AI helps me write tests. AI suggests improvements and catches bugs before compiling. AI writes helper scripts/tools for me. All of these things are good enough for me to accept paying a few hundred dollars every month, although I don't have to because my employer already does do that for me.
6 months ago I was arguing that AI wasn't very good and code was more precise than english for specifying solutions. The first part is not true anymore for many things I care about. The second is still true but for many things I care about it doesn't matter.
I'm getting tired of articles that try to tell me what to think about AI. "AI is great and will replace all programmers!"... "AI sucks and will ruin your brain and codebase!"... both of these are tired and meaningless arguments.