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I think that over time people will start looking at AI-assisted coding the same way we now look at loosely typed code, or at (heavy) frameworks: it saves time in the short term, but may cause significant problems down the line. Whether or not this tradeoff makes sense in a specific situation is a matter of debate, and there's usually no obviously right or wrong answer.
You're only as fast as your biggest bottleneck. Adding AI to an existing organization is just going to show you where your bottlenecks are, it's not going to magically make them go away. For most companies, the speed of writing code probably wasn't the bottleneck in the first place.
I can see where productivity could be higher if all I did was type in programs to some spec, or bootstrapping new apps all day - but that's like not the reality of "programming", at least for me past 25 years. Sorting through what to even make and interpreting "requirements" is what takes the most time
Yeah, industry has told them that devs aren't valuable and AI can do their job. Who TF has motivation after that?