I have yet to see AI become a boosting board for developers like other tools that are out there. More often than not I see it being used as a crutch or a method to fake competence. Developers using AI will create applications they don't understand and are unable to modify or debug. I'm sure the technology will progress from here, but I've yet to have someone blow me away using AI as a tool.

The thing that will convince me that AI has arrived is when I can plug in a 100k line legacy codebase, describe a bug, and then have it find the cause of the bug for me.

I agree with this article. Executives are going to say, why pay anyone when we can just have the receptionist tell the AI to make whatever and if it has bugs, we'll type another prompt and ask to have it fixed.

It's sad because true craftpersons who have an understanding of things can do good work and feel fulfilled doing it.

So, is the future going to be a camera attached to glasses continually coaching people through every single step completely removing agency whether it is coding or doing carpentry?