alt Hacker NewsI had my "wow" moment recently and saw an AI agent do something do over a weekend something that I spent years developing a relatively niche skill might have needed a month to complete.
I think the message the team lead takes away right now is "oh, this can be done a lot faster, let's do more!" This is exciting for a bit, but I think it comes at the cost of learning -- and being able to communicate --architectural lessons that would stage off systemic issues later.
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Everyone is afraid about what will happen when people's skills atrophy, but the tools aren't going anywhere.
If they truly can always recognize problems and communicate them in understandable ways, then people's skills won't atrophy.
Everyone's skills will be enhanced.
New developers will learn all of the things they need to learn through using the tool.
My personal "wow" moment was less about it being able to do the same that I could do with it, just faster, but instead that together we could could build things that I wasn't able to build before (or unwilling to spend the time to learn maybe). So a bunch of stuff are suddenly "unlocked", as long as you know how to verify it properly.