"The whole point of AI agents is to eventually get good enough to do this stuff better than humans do"

You can be an enthusiastic adopter of AI tooling (like I am) without wanting them to eventually be better than humans at everything.

I'm very much still in the "augment, don't replace" camp when it comes to AI tooling.

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dheera 8 months ago | parent [-]

No, I actually do want them to eventually be better than humans at everything.

I'm okay with directing AI to write exactly the software I need, without having to manage "stakeholders", deal with the egos of boomers up the management chain, and all the shitty things certain people do in any organizations that get large enough.

	▲	Capricorn2481 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		Why do you think any of those are going away? You can be the best programmer in the world and you'll still be dealing with that. If you're in a situation where you don't have to deal with that, it won't be the result of using AI