[docmars]

Not sure why this is getting downvoted, but you're right — being able to crank out ideas on our own is the "killer app" of AI so to speak.

Granted, you would learn a lot more if you had pieced your ideas together manually, but it all depends on your own priorities. The difference is, you're not stuck cleaning up after someone else's bad AI code. That's the side to the AI coin that I think a lot of tech workers are struggling with, eventually leading to rampant burnout.

[raw_anon_1111]

What would I learn that I don’t already know? The exact syntax and property of Terraform and boto3 for every single one of the 150+ services that AWS offers? How to modify a React based front end written by another developer even though I haven’t and have actively stayed away from front end development for well over a decade?

Will a company pay me more for knowing those details? Will I be more affectively able to architect and design solutions that a company will pay my employer to contract me to do and my company pays me? They pay me decently not because I “codez real gud”. They pay me because I can go from empty AWS account, empty repo and ambiguous customer requirements to a working solution (after spending time talking to a customer) to a full well thought out architecture + code on time on budget and that meets requirements.

I am not bragging, I’m old those are table stakes to being able to stay in this game for 3 decades

[johnnyanmac]

> I am not bragging, I’m old those are table stakes to being able to stay in this game for 3 decades

I'm not old. But slightly past where most would call "young". I see a decent career for the first 5-6 years and then a disruption that completely cuts down on the things you likely had your entire career. Enough time to get a taste of the good times,not enough time to get stable. Meanwhile you buult networks, accomplishments, a seal of trust, in times with overall lower standards.

I don't even use AI but AI has shaped the way I need to navigate the job market and verify knowledge. If you have plenty of pre-AI colleagues and projects to point to you skip all this. But it's a hellscape for people like me.

And I'm sure its an absolute wasteland for new grads