I'm sorry what? Junior engineers can't learn anything without using AI assistants (or is the implication that having seniors review their code makes them incapable of learning?) and senior engineer would hate their jobs reviewing more code from their teammates? What reality do people live in now?

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zdragnar 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I thought the implication was that juniors would continue to use AI to stay "productive" (AWS is not a rest and vest job for juniors, from what I've heard) and seniors would no longer have time to do anything but review code from juniors who just spin the AI wheel.

There's a lot of learning opportunity in failing, but if failure just means spam the AI button with a new prompt, there's not much learning to be had.

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ritlo 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> senior engineer would hate their jobs reviewing more code from their teammates

Jesus, yes. Maybe I'm an oddball but there's a limit to how much PR reviewing I could do per week and stay sane. It's not terribly high, either. I'd say like 5 hours per week max, and no more than one hour per half-workday, before my eyes glaze over and my reviews become useless.

Reviewing code is important and is part of the job but if you're asking me to spend far more of my time on it, and across (presumably) a wider set of projects or sections of projects so I've got more context-switching to figure out WTF I'm even looking at, yes, I would hate my job by the end of day 1 of that.

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almostdeadguy 10 hours ago | parent [-]

If we can't spend that much time reviewing code, what are we exactly doing with this AI stuff?

I don't disagree, I think reviewing is laborious, I just don't see how this causes any unintended consequences that aren't effectively baked into using an AI assistant.

	▲	bluefirebrand 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, this is part of why AI tools are bad Code Review is hard and tiring, much moreso than writing it I've never met anyone who would be okay reviewing code for their full time job