Thought experiment: would a junior developer armed with a modern day gpt-5.5 or opus 4.8 in 2015 would have been considered a 10x developer (assuming nobody knew they were using AI)?

If you want to play games like that, you could also flip it around and ask if the AI would have been eventually fired (assuming no one knew they were talking to a computer).

Not sure what that proves.

No. I experienced this firsthand. Brought on a on level dev who was using Ai. Created slop, when asked how it works, he just said “it’s all in the documentation” Lots of good documentation, but that’s bot what I needed. I needed an engineer that understood and knew what he created. I’m no longer at that org.

Depends on whether they have one of the bosses that judge employees’ quality by the number of lines written.

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