Microsoft research: Use AI chatbots and turn yourself into a dumbass

According to the text body of the article, it's more like "you're a dumbass? with AI, you can dumbass harder and faster".

Stupid is as stupid does

I've called those LLMs:

"peak mediocrity"

I think this is a pretty key outcome for AI in software engineering: It really can speed up writing big chunks of code for you so you don't have to do drudgery. But, you kind of have to go through doing some drudgery to really get familiar with what's going on, how the algorithms work, be able to read and write code comfortably. I wonder if the new engineers coming up in the near future are going to be interacting with AI systems that interact with the guts on their behalf, but always have a significant disadvantage because they didn't have to work with the bits and bolts thoroughly enough to get a solid understanding of how they work, and strengthen the muscles for years and years.

It might just be cope on my part, or it might be that the landscape will change so quickly that it doesn't have time to even become relevant because the current way that it is will change in a few years anyway.

It is a tool, it is useful for doing things and as a learning aid...

It does not replace skills, knowledge and competence.

If it did that, we would all already be unemployed.