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Our reading
Handing all code production to AI leaves junior developers with no path to becoming senior ones.
Their wordsIn addition to reliability issues, it often engenders a mind-numbing workflow and an environment where junior developers will never acquire the expertise to become senior developers capable of designing complex systems.
Their wordsBut if you zoom out, it becomes clear that almost every “breakthrough” since last summer has concerned the narrow domains of computer code and math, which are defined by highly structured languages and come accompanied by massive amounts of specialized training data.
Their wordsIt’s a normal technology, and perhaps it’s time we start talking about it that way.