[lelanthran]

> The post is right superficially. It made being an engineer harder because it took away the easy parts that anyone can do and it forces engineers to think of the hard ones.

I dunno about that. Look at blogging as an example - AI took away the "easy"[1] part of blogging, and now we are left with 90% crap AI-generated "articles" like the one you just read.

I feel it's the other way around - AI took away the hard parts, of both blogging and programming, and now what have to look forward to every single damn day is a deluge of AI slop of absolutely poor quality.

Continuing with the literature analogy (because this article was written by an AI), adding AI as a tool for authors isn't producing the next Terry Pratchett quicker, it's delaying the production of the next Terry Pratchett because the next Terry Pratchett will be drowned out by an unstoppable volume of AI slop.

After all, if you can't recognise obvious AI blog posts, what makes you think you can recognise poor code?

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[1] I am using the term as you are using it. I don't really believe that it took away the easy part.