I've been thinking, over the last year developers have started to rely on genAI quite a lot, I see people around me boast that they haven't written a single line of code in months
Quite often when colleagues show me ideas they have to solve a problem it's a markdown list clearly made by an AI
I feel like people are so enthusiastic about just handing over their job to genAI models
I've been told that if I am a good software engineer I should be ok with supervising AI while they write code for me "so I can focus on the bigger picture"
I know I'm a good engineer I can design solutions and lead teams but I also like solving problems myself, I like coding, I like cracking that complex SQL query that makes it run 10x faster, I like writing efficient code and I like the gotcha moment when I solve a complex problem
And yet people around me are so eager to get to a point where you can just hand over a ticket to an agent and they do everything themselves... Where all that's left for humans is reviewing the PR (unless you have another agent do that)
Am I the only one that actually enjoys the job? I am curious what the general feeling is in regards to handing over planning and development work to agents
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