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My experience has been that code generation tools which we call "AI" today lead you down the wrong path real quick. If you know what you are doing then you get a performance boost. If you are too junior then you just find quicker ways to drive against the wall. Every day I run into engineering problems that ChatGPT thinks is the right approach, and every day there are challenges for which the model is wrong without knowing it. You can be productive at writing bad code and building bad products that break in interesting ways when you need it the least. Anyone who understands anything about any domain knows that the language models of today are bullshit generators. They are useful for some tasks, but IMO they cannot promote a junior engineer to a senior engineer. No chance. Period. Full Stop. This has something to do with real life and real industry specific experience, and language models are not yet good at that at all.

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