Comment by integricho
6 days ago
I believe you are miscalculating the effect of skill atrophy, there is benefit and actual experience gained by doing the work yourself. You are an experienced dev and already have a lot of tools and knowledge under your belt so at the moment it is hard to see the actual issue, as this is just a productivity multiplierfor you. But give it a couple of years working under these conditions, your tech savvy nature will be severely diminished.
In a couple of years he will be 60, too. Then 65, then 70.
Seniors will be able to stay in the game much longer than before, mark my words.
Indeed. I think it's a much bigger issue for juniors, who haven't yet had a chance to build that systems design muscle.
When an LLM is making a bad design decision but the engineer doesn't have the experience to spot it AND the consequences don't become apparent until much later (which is often the case) -- it's kinda hard to learn.