Everyone blames AI coding tools for ruining junior developers. Nobody talks about what it's doing to the seniors.
I've been thinking about this for a while. The dominant narrative is that Copilot is creating a generation of developers who can't code without autocomplete. But I think we're looking at the wrong level of the org chart.
The real problem isn't generation
As of November 2023, GitHub Copilot counted with more than 1.8 million paid subscribers. There are immense amounts of developers relying on AI code every day.
Research indicates that AI assistants can increase a team’s written output but not necessarily its quality. Let’s assume that sinks in now. The additional volume of code that is less optimal must be identified and fixed somewhere. And that somewhere has always been assumed to be in the code review.
