AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder
I came across this article by Matthew Hansen. Worth reading.
Developers used to google things. You’d read a StackOverflow answer, or an article, or a GitHub issue. You did some research, verified it against your own context, and came to your own conclusion. Nobody said “Google did it for me” or “it was the top result so it must be true.”
Now I’m starting to hear “AI did it for me."
That’s either overhyping what happened, or it means the developer didn’t come to their own conclusion. Both are bad. If someone on my team ever did say Google wrote their code because they copied a StackOverflow answer, I’d be worried about the same things I’m worried about now with AI: did you actually understand what you pasted?