alt Hacker News> AI is a junior to mid-level engineer
This is not true anymore and you aren't helping yourself by deluding yourself about it.
It's something, nobody quite knows what, but it's NOT a junior or mid level engineer, it's a nuclear powered staff engineer living in a cardboard box who lacks domain context and wakes up with no memories ever 5 hours.
And who can't code its way out of a wet paper bag on hard problems. It's more productive for the day-to-day BS, which is convenient because it creates more day-to-day BS you need to handle, but that isn't the reason I hire a staff engineer.