alt Hacker News"as most arguments don't apply to today's world" makes me want to roll my eyes so hard at you. The vast majority of problems we had with building complicated systems are all still just sitting there. People are speedrunning relearning things we've known about software engineering for decades.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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The examples I gave, and the arguments that usually support them don’t really translate into “building complicated systems”. I was talking about the arguments in support of variable naming flamewars, etc.
I’m not proponent of AI generating everything without any supervision as of now. But willing to change my mind when it gets better.
Most software engineering jobs are not cutting-edge tech, or research, or solving unsolved problems. Integrations, APIs, figma-to-react pipelines, devops and etc. is what people get hired for. All those can be done much faster in the same-or-better quality by an experienced person with the supplement of AI. It’s hard to imagine any company would go against the grain and slow things down on purpose.
Between AI and the stock market (which of course relates directly to AI), I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard lately another variation of “this time is different.” Sometimes so close to those words that I wonder why the person speaking them doesn’t feel a bit tingly. Great big warning signs all around.