Comment by simonw
4 months ago
"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.
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.
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