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On your second point... that's the problem... IMO, humans need to read/understand and approve code changes generated by AI. If either through a lack of understanding or skill, they approve changes anyways, that's largely on them an they largely deserve what they get.

Like TFA, I'm a proponent of human gatekeepers in the loop. IMO, the result isn't much better at a team level when you compare dev + ai to a typical team and that level of output... but you get a lot more testing and documentation along the way just through the process refinement and iterations.

I think the harder issue is finding and growing Senior level developers that actually have a material understanding of what is happening and how things are working at a high and low level. The more junior, imo, the more likely someone is to just accept the AI result(s) that introduce more bugs in the process.

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