AI gives more leverage to exceptional people, its an amplifier not an extender
There was an old truism of "acid fascism" that went like this: "LSD makes smart people smarter and stupid people jump out of windows". This is like that.
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That is true of all tools. AI is a tool. A tool provides leverage. It does not make a bad craftsperson good.
Right, it's a multiplier only if we define bad engineers as negative numbers, and "bad" as "most".