Comment by 1a527dd5

I think it's starting to change.

I'm an AI sceptic (and generally disregard most AI announcements). I don't think it's going to replace SWE at all.

I've been chunking the same questions both to Gemini and GPT and I'd say about until ~8 months ago they were both as bad as each other and basically useless.

However, recently Gemini has gotten noticeable better and has never hallucinated.

I don't let it write any code for me. Instead I treat Gemini as a 10+ YoE on {{subject}}.

Working as platform engineer, my subjects are broad so it's very useful to have a rubber duck ready to go on almost any topic.

I don't use copilot or any other AI. So I can't compare it to those.