There's an undertone of self-soothing "AI will leverage me, not replace me", which I don't agree with especially in the long run, at least in software.
In the end it will be the users sculpting formal systems like playdoh.
In the medium run, "AI is not a co-worker" is exactly right.
The idea of a co-worker will go away.
Human collaboration on software is fundamentally inefficient.
We pay huge communication/synchronization costs to eek out mild speed ups on projects by adding teams of people.
Software is going to become an individual sport, not a team sport, quickly.
The benefits we get from checking in with other humans, like error correction, and delegation can all be done better by AI.
I would rather a single human (for now) architect with good taste and an army of agents than a team of humans.
In the medium run, "AI is not a co-worker" is exactly right. The idea of a co-worker will go away. Human collaboration on software is fundamentally inefficient. We pay huge communication/synchronization costs to eek out mild speed ups on projects by adding teams of people. Software is going to become an individual sport, not a team sport, quickly. The benefits we get from checking in with other humans, like error correction, and delegation can all be done better by AI. I would rather a single human (for now) architect with good taste and an army of agents than a team of humans.