Comment by livueta

It's been kind of enlightening seeing leadership at $BIGCORP push AI coding solutions like they're guaranteed to be a 10x increase in velocity in every context. Feedback from ICs isn't wholly negative - there are definitely situations where it can be useful, like quickly grokking common applications of common tools, or semi-intelligently applying a diff pattern that is more then just a regex - but there's a complete unwillingness to hear any feedback that isn't "this tech is a total paradigm shift that allows us to finally get rid of all these pesky and expensive developers". Reports of, for instance, the introduction of subtle bugs that take extended amounts of time to understand and fix, are met with outright hostility and accusations of incompetence. When a complex defect or escalation drags on, a common question is "why haven't you asked AI to fix it yet", belying a total misunderstanding of the sorts of tasks the tool is applicable to. The kool-aid is not so much drunk as rectally infused. If valuations are based on this sort of outlook, whew, this market is totally fucked.