Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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Thanks for writing this! An obvious one for me is what is going to be the impact on the junior developers? Are they missing something while shifting into "system integrators"? How do we restructure our mentorship to replace the learning that used to happen when working hard through logical problems or algorithms that AI can now handle instantly?
Is the "Cost of Verification" starting to outweigh the "Speed of Creation"? Generating 500 lines of code takes seconds; verifying that those 500 lines don’t contain a security vulnerability or a logic bomb can take an hour. If our senior devs are spending their time auditing "fast" code from juniors, ROI could be negative. There is probably a sweet spot. Just like we could skip code review entirely or we could have multiple reviewers in deep discussions approved by a single benevolent dictator. I think ultimately we need a paradigm shift here - AI reviewing AI with the humans involved at a meta level -- something like sampling code for inspection.
The last question I'll ask is around the cost of these tools. Today, we are seeing great returns on investment. We can sure find ways to spend tokens... how stable is this pricing?
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