Hacker News Reader

> my sense is that developers who don’t cultivate this new skill set will fall behind

That might be true but it's an easy skillset to pick up compared to programming. The bigger danger is that new developers will lean on AI so much that they do not pick up the fundamentals of programming in which case they will definitely be left behind.

View on HN

Many, probably. However, the curious types will likely be further enhanced by AI. I've never been one to take code at face value, and I have been enjoying sessions with ChatGPT asking all sorts of questions about some of the stuff it produces. The answer is usually sufficient, and in cases where it's not, I've been given enough background context to know where to find the answer online or in books.

Honestly, I've seen myself master many more additional things since I've started including it in my daily routine.

the result of this will be similar to hiring infosys

hundreds of thousands of lines of buggy incomprehensible boilerplate that doesn't work on anything but the easy cases

then you have to rip the entire thing apart and start again with people that know what they're doing

Reply on news.ycombinator.com