Comment by h4ny

> you MUST get very good at reviewing code that you did not write.

I find that interesting. That has always been the case at most places my friends and I have worked at that have proper software engineering practices, companies both very large and very small.

> AI can already write very good code. I have led teams of senior+ software engineers for many years. AI can write better code than most of them can at this point.

I echo @ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7's opinion. For well defined refactoring and expanding on existing code in limited scope they do well, but I have not seen that for any substantial features especially full-stack ones, which is what most senior engineers I know are finding.

If you are really seeing that then I would either worry about the quality of those senior+ software engineers or the metrics you are using to assess the efficacy of AI vs. senior+ engineers. You don't have to even show us any code: just tell us how you objectively came to that conclusions and what is the framework you used to compare them.

> Educational establishments MUST prioritize teaching code review skills

Perhaps more is needed but I don't know about "prioritizing"? Code review isn't something you can teach as a self-contained skill.

> and other high-level leadership skills.

Not everyone needs to be a leader and not everyone wants to be a leader. What are leadership skills anyway? If you look around the world today, it looks like many people we call "leaders" are people accelerating us towards a dystopia.