Comment by adventured a day ago
The conversations will climb the ladder and narrow.
Eventually: well, but, the AI coding agent isn't better than a top 10%/5%/1% software developer.
And it'll be that the coding agents can't do narrow X thing better than a top tier specialist at that thing.
The skeptics will forever move the goal posts.
> If the AI actually outperforms humans in the full context of the work, then no, we won't. It will be so much cheaper and faster that businesses won't have to argue at all. Those that adopt them will massively outcompetes those that don't.
This. The dev's outcompeting by using AI today are too busy shipping, rather than wasting time writing blog posts about what ultimately, is a skill-issue.
If the AI actually outperforms humans in the full context of the work, then no, we won't. It will be so much cheaper and faster that businesses won't have to argue at all. Those that adopt them will massively outcompetes those that don't.
However, assuming we are still having this conversation, that alone is proof to me that the AI is not that capable. We're several years into "replace all devs in six months." We will have to continue wait and see it try and do.