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.
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.
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
The friction that I had in the past to getting started is gone. I have something to work on 30” after I sit on my desk.
And if something is not working, I have someone eager to discuss with me about it and patiently work towards a solution.
For programming I find it pretty useful. For MS Office it's so far not a hell of a lot more useful than clippy. The one thing it's good at is finding old stuff in SharePoint and Outlook but that's more a sign of how terrible the search functions are in those than of how good copilot is.
I can see the reports being generated myself (I work in that part) so I know what I'm doing looks good enough.
But it would be funny if I really had to give it busywork. I'd probably build a local agent (like with foundry or something) to talk to copilot keeping it busy. I like the paradox of that.
Ask it to generate a cron job for this.
This is the only phrase where I see where the concern for others is so deeply and genuinely expressed in america.
Strap in.
there might be a misattribution though. over time, id say the top down initiatives and quality at tracking them has gone up maybe 100% used to be one big project for getting rid of oracle that went for 3-7 years, but nowadays theres maybe 5 per month that disrupts the whole company at once.
There's a desire to make that LLM/agent based, but the agent still doesnt cover all the communication overhead to actually communicate the change across teams for deployments, nor is it so seamless that you dont have to take time out to understand whats happening and schedule the work, even if it is sometimes just approving an automated code change
So now expectations are based on a false reality and everyone has to work harder.
That seems like it’s doing exactly what it is supposed to. Did people think that AI would give them a four hour work day? Have you not lived under capitalism for years now?