Comment by realusername
15 hours ago
> code that gets the job done and looks ok, maybe even great, but contains small “anomalies” that compound over time
They clearly are only assistants for the moment, you can use them to do work ... but only if you could do the said work yourself alone in the first place.
I would say "only if you can review said work yourself alone", rather than "do".
I'm an experienced developer, but I don't count myself as a web dev or a python dev; I can review the web and python stuff I get out of the AI (sometimes I need to ask the AI follow-up questions so I can find official documentation for what it did), but I can't write it.
I think you could eventually do it then, it would just take you longer.
If "eventually" counts, I can say I have "run" a marathon (I have walked that distance in one session, or if you don't like that verb I can sum all the various occasions I've run and that sum almost certainly exceeded 42.2 km before I finished school).
But the difference I allude to here is more like how "book reviewer" is a different job than "book author": yes, if you can review a book, you can also write one. Eventually.