Sigh, there's that study again, quoted without any "early 2025" context. In early 2025 AI wasn't very effective, especially when used by engineers that didn't have an intuition for what to and what not to use it for.
It's different in mid 2025. The next quote is simonw in mid 2025 saying don't quit engineering. Right now it's as if we're carpenters and the buzz saw was just invented. Shouldn't that be in the first group of quotes?
If you look at his set of quotes through another lens it's saying: Software engineering is changing due to AI. AI wasn't great in early 2025, but recently got a lot better. Some CEOs and plenty of journos are giddy at the possibility of layoffs. Layoffs aren't actually happening though.
That's a far cry from "no one knows anything about AI".
It's different in mid 2025. The next quote is simonw in mid 2025 saying don't quit engineering. Right now it's as if we're carpenters and the buzz saw was just invented. Shouldn't that be in the first group of quotes?
If you look at his set of quotes through another lens it's saying: Software engineering is changing due to AI. AI wasn't great in early 2025, but recently got a lot better. Some CEOs and plenty of journos are giddy at the possibility of layoffs. Layoffs aren't actually happening though.
That's a far cry from "no one knows anything about AI".