That's because everyone else has access to the same tools. If you don't become more productive then you will be replaced with someone who will.
They only way it'd help you is if you controlled access to AI and it was a competitive advantage for you over a fellow developer. A rising tide lifts all boats... but you are only paid for how much taller you are than the other boats.
It's important to understand that AI is capital, and it's to the owner of the capital go the spoils. Your capital is in your skills, but they are a commodity and thus you have limited leverage.
Who benefits from AI is smaller businesses who could not afford custom application development at previous development costs. It's like faster laptops and better IDEs didn't boost developer salaries.
>Who benefits from AI is smaller businesses who could not afford custom application development at previous development costs.
Of course, as AI reduces the cost to operate in niches, those small businesses who just gained the ability to build an app are also more likely than before to see a bigger player drink their milkshake.
Not to mention that small businesses will have a harder time absorbing the inevitable price hike that will come once everyone has made themselves completely dependent on AI to get any work done.
VSCode has advanced editor functionalities that not many use. But devs using that functionality aren't replacing devs not using it. Although they also save hours of manual work thanks to multi line cursors
Thing is, AI is being shoved top-down on devs because it's a goal for everyone, without checking if it's actually helping or hindering.
What I am seeing is juniors are blindly trusting AI output and say in a few years, it's going to be a disaster because nobody understands anything except seniors
25 years ago, a recently hired junior accountant would just run a cost accounting report and hand it off as if it were golden. Those of us who knew the system(s) would check the results and often provide some interpretation or even hold a report back so as not to mislead.
> What I am seeing is juniors are blindly trusting AI output and say in a few years, it's going to be a disaster because nobody understands anything except seniors
I see exactly the same in teams of senior and staff engs, and I promise you - they are not going to understand anything either.
Well yeah, that’s the whole point. My company is still at the phase where people have access to LLMs but it’s in the honeymoon phase where expectations for work throughput are still pre LLM but everyone secretly uses them and slacks off the rest of the time.
