Comment by sureglymop
4 days ago
I would say even more important than quality is just the fact that you will probably understand better. If an issue arises you will already know the intricacies while the AI slop engineer almost has to ask the AI again. They have got themselves stuck in a sort of slop cycle where after some time human understanding is completely out of the picture.
AI does not save anyone from having to know the fundamentals of software engineering and systems, but that’s orthogonal.
If you know them, AI supercharges you. If you don’t, you’re a lost cause no matter what.
> AI does not save anyone from having to know the fundamentals of software engineering and systems
That's kind of my point. There are junior engineers how have to go through a learning phase. Also, you may have this insight, but their managers may not.
The sad thing is management often just doesn't care about those kinds of things.
For instance: my employer seems actively hostile to maintaining human understanding, even before AI. Ownership of apps moved around without sufficient knowledge transition or training. We've migrated Wiki systems 2 or 3 times over my career, and stuff always gets lost. The last migration (to SharePoint) was downright hostile: it was presented as an opportunity to "clean up," the half-ass automated migration deliberately excluded things more than a year old, and your docs got nuked unless someone was paying attention to save them (not a given). Now that SharePoint is in the cloud, its admins are actively scanning for things to delete, because the priority is minimizing their storage costs, not, you know maintaining knowledge of how things work.