The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.
We document everything. Site Books, SDDs, RVS reports, boilerplate modules with full coverage. It works today, because the people reading those docs have the engineering expertise to act on them. What happens when they don’t? Honestly, I don’t know. Maybe AI in five years is good enough that it won’t matter. Maybe the problem stays manageable. I can’t predict the capabilities of models in 2031.
But crises don’t send calendar invites. Nobody expected a full-scale land war in Europe in 2022. The defense industry had thirty years to prepare and didn’t. Even Fogbank had records. They weren’t enough without the people who understood what they meant.
Some people are so anti-AI, all they have to do is call and hire them. They haven’t ever used AI, so their pure and perfect and powerful brains can do these jobs.
The issue isn’t that ai turns people stupid. The issue is that companies are replacing junior dev positions with ai.
The only way to become a senior dev is to be a junior dev and gain experience. Replacing junior positions with ai creates an eventuality where we will need senior devs but there are none (or more likely not enough) because the junior dev positions were replaced with ai. A super-race of humans untainted by ai isn’t going to change this.
The author addresses that claim.
It’s a ridiculous assumption.
Some people are so anti-AI, all they have to do is call and hire them. They haven’t ever used AI, so their pure and perfect and powerful brains can do these jobs.
What’s the issue that I am missing?
The issue isn’t that ai turns people stupid. The issue is that companies are replacing junior dev positions with ai.
The only way to become a senior dev is to be a junior dev and gain experience. Replacing junior positions with ai creates an eventuality where we will need senior devs but there are none (or more likely not enough) because the junior dev positions were replaced with ai. A super-race of humans untainted by ai isn’t going to change this.
What do you suggest?