It really does feel like I've gone from being 1 senior engineer to a team that has a 0.8 Sr. Eng, 5 Jrs. and one dude that spends all his time on digging through poorly documented open source projects and documenting them for the team.
Sure I can't spend quite as much time working on hard problems as I used to, but no one knows that I haven't talked to a PM in months, no one knows I haven't written a commit summary in months, it's just been my AI doppelgangers. Compared to myself a year ago I think I now PERSONALLY write 150% more HARD code than I did before. So maybe, my first statement about being 0.8 is false.
I think of it like electric bikes, there seems to be indication that people with electric assist bikes actually burn more calories/spend more time/go farther on an electric bike than those who have manual bikes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22141....
I don't know what you're posting, but if it's anything like what I see being done by GitHub copilot, your commit messages are junk. They're equivalent to this and you're wasting everyone's time:
// Sets the value
const value = "red"The only part I don't automate is the pull request review (or patch review, pre-commit review, etc. before git.), thats always been the line to hold for protecting codebases with many contributors of varying capability, this is explicitly addressed in the article as well.
You can fight whatever straw man you want. Shadowbox the hypotheticals in your head, etc. I don't get all these recent and brand new accounts just straight up insulting and insinuating all this crap all over HN today.