The naysayers used to bother me, but then I realized it’s no skin off my back if they don’t want to become familiar with a transformative technology. Stay with the old tools, people are getting excited for no reason at all, everyone is just pretending to be more productive!
It reminds me of how blackberry users insisted physical keyboards were necessary and smartphone touchscreen users were deluded.
The one thing i've seemed to notice about this technology, is that technology never really replaces people... It just forces those to add things...
More, more more is always the reaction to transformative technologies because us humans have this underlying obsession with growth and scale.
For instance, in 1910 Fords manufacturing lines were producing about 7,000 cars a week. As robotics, conveyance and general automation was introduced they didn't hire less workers, they hired more. Now they produce millions of cars per year.
Software will be the same. Devs will be expected to write more code, and produce more features. There has been an explosion in AI based hiring since.
This is the fundamental question most of us seem to have.
On the one hand, logic does seem to dictate supply/demand of the profession will lower salaries. Also no one really cares how code was written or if it's pretty.
On the other hand, these tools have only seemed to increase our value so far. Someone who knows how to code with AI is now 1000x more valuable than someone who doesn't know how to code.
You still need to know how to code to be able to contribute. How long that remains the case is the question. You could be right
It reminds me of how blackberry users insisted physical keyboards were necessary and smartphone touchscreen users were deluded.