Are AI Assistants Making Us Worse Programmers?

[snakeyjake]

AI has already made art, music, YouTube, the internet as a whole, the written word, customer service interactions, amazon, google, and the environment objectively and irrefutably worse so it doesn't seem like a stretch that it also fucks up programmers.

It's doing a fantastic job of addicting people to social media even more and selling them cheap Chinese garbage though!

[yawpitch]

Alternative framing: were we already worse programmers, and AI assistants spitting our own collective bugs back at us are helping us by revealing that?

[rafaquintanilha]

Even if that was the case you can't disregard the possibility of it affecting otherwise good developers negatively.