I honestly do not see the difference between a grader and a guy with a shovel. Neither do I see the difference between the developer with vim, developer with a ‘smart’ IDE, and a developer with as AI assistant.
Those are two questions, in the first place. Answering “no” to the former eliminates the latter. Debating whether we are ok with fully offloading our duties to whatever sounds to me like discussing whether we should pay in the supermarkets for our goods, or just steal them.
It absolutely does not matter what group do I belong. I am a developer, and I ship the code. Do I write it myself, or does my cat writes it in her spare time does not matter. I am responsible for it—always was and always will be. Years ago I have scripts, generators, templates, helpers, libraries from OSS after all. I used them. The universe did not explode.
Now I have AI assistant as well. But I am still the one, being responsible for the code I deliver. When I do a code review and I reject it asking for changes, I do not care who actually produced it, my colleague or their housemaid. I demand quality from the person who signed the commit.
We dealt with junior-written-code, mediocre-developer-wrtitten-code, and whatnot. All that required a sharp eye and an ability to tell good from bad. What has changed? In my humble opinion, nothing has. Maybe the hype is to be mitigated, that’s it.
