I take a fairly optimistic view to the adoption of AI assistants in our line of work. We begin to work and reason at a higher level and let the agents worry about the lower level details. Know where else this happens? Any human organization that existed, exists, and will exist. Hierarchies form because no one person can do everything and hold all the details in their mind, especially as the complexity of what they intend to accomplish goes up.

One can continue to perfect and exercise their craft the old school way, and that’s totally fine, but don’t count on that to put food on the table. Some genius probably can, but I certainly am not one.

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mhog_hn 17 hours ago | parent [-]

But what if the AI agent has a 5% chance of adding a bug to that feature? Surely before any feature was completely bug free

	▲	tjchear 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah it’s all trade offs. If it means I get to where I want to be faster, even if it’s imperfect, so be it. Humans aren’t without flaws; prior to coding assistants, I’ve lost count of the times my PM telling me to rush things at the expense of engineering rigor. We validate or falsify the need for a feature sooner and move on to other things. Sometimes it works sometimes a bug blows up in our faces, but things still chug along. This point will become increasingly moot as AI gets better at generating good code, and faster, too.
	▲	bethekidyouwant 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What is the chance that you add a bug?