Comment by K0balt

Because I have 100 percent test coverage (of the software, some hardware edge cases pop up that aren’t documented in the data sheets), and over 10k hours of field deployment over 130 devices? This rollout has been much more bug free than any we have done in the last six years, and it’s the first that has been almost zero hand coded. (Our system is far from vibe coding however, there is a very strict pipeline)

I’m not saying that AI can solve every problem or that it is without problems (we spent hundreds of hours developing a concept to production pipeline just to make sure it doesn’t go off the rails)

But the net result is that a good senior dev with an acutely olfactory paranoia can supervise a production pipeline and produce efficient, maintainable code at a much faster rate (and ridiculously lower cost) that he was doing before supervising 3 or 4 devs on a complex hardware project. I can’t speak for other types of development, but our applications devs are also leveraging AI code generation and it -seems- to be working out.

Now, where those senior devs are going to come from in the future… that imho is a huge problem. It’s definitely some flavor of eating the goose that lays the golden egg here.