Perhaps more broadly AI will hollow out "middle intelligence".

We could end up with a gulf between those who use AI for cognitive inquiry vs passive delegation. Those who accelerate learning by asking "help me understand this" vs those who relinquish understanding and analytical thinking to AI to complete their work.

All of this is my fault.

I decided to start learning programming about 6 years ago as a possible new career path. The universe was not going to have that so AI was created.

> - "Why are we doing this here?" > They send you a link. It's a Claude conversation.

LLMs spared my neck of the woods for now but is this really how PR review looks like these days for an average SWE or its just an example of a Junior in a team?

LLMs are an automated Indian dev-shop. That’s all. The code is poorly thought out, poorly implemented and doesn’t take performance into account. But the code works and you got it for cheap. That’s my mental model and I’m happy with it

I appreciate that the OP puts his finger on the problem. I think he's right. I wish there was more optimism or ideas about how to solve it, though. How do I fight against it as an engineer? Or, how do I become a "good" engineer? It feels like sometimes the only solution people have is effectively "don't use it."

I saw close some companies getting completely lost with AI code

It's not clear to me what "the middle class" is supposed to be here. All engineers exist on some spectrum between "good" and "bad" and it's pointless to try to identify the exact markings, but we all know good engineers and bad engineers.

So AI isn't really doing anything but giving sharper tools to both groups.

So, as it was before, we simply need to set expectations and remove those who cannot adapt and meet expectations... You know, the way it's always been.

So why is AI the problem here?

The premise does not make any sense, it is a technical culture problem which you need to enforce. If you let it go wild, yes it will go wilder than ever but this is relatively trivial problem.

Writing code was never the job. Creating value was the job -- coding was just how to implement that goal.