Comment by ofjcihen
6 days ago
It’s a great point and one I’ve wondered myself.
Arguments are made consistently about how this can replace interns or juniors directly. Others say LLMs can help them learn to code.
Maybe, but not on your codebase or product and not with a seniors knowledge of pitfalls.
I wonder if this will be programmings iPhone moment where we start seeing a lack of deep knowledge needed to troubleshoot. I can tell you that we’re already seeing a glut of security issues being explained by devs as “I asked copilot if it was secure and it said it was fine so I committed it”.
> I can tell you that we’re already seeing a glut of security issues being explained by devs as “I asked copilot if it was secure and it said it was fine so I committed it”.
And as with Google and Stack Overflow before, the Sr Devs will smack the wrists of the Jr's that commit untested and unverified code, or said Jr's will learn not to do those things when they're woken up at 2 AM for an outage.
That's assuming the business still employs those Sr Devs so they can do the wrist smacking.
To be clear, I think any business that dumps experienced devs in favor of cheaper vibe-coding mids and juniors would be making a foolish mistake, but something being foolish has rarely stopped business types from trying.