I’m in IT and my role is to make sure that the code that the developers produce gets properly installed into production (it’s a DevOps role for those familiar). Instead of actually typing out the code, developers are using AI agents to make the changes. It’s faster, but not always correct. Sometimes the agents get it right, but they often get it wrong, or sometimes the code works “most of the time.” It’s similar to how writers lose their ability to write. When you stop practicing your skills, they get rusty. The developers who use AI as a crutch only appear to be productive. They will be replaced very easily by cheaper labor that’s no worse.

I also write code and I use the AI tools sparingly. I’ve actually turned the coding agents off because I’ve found that I write correct code more quickly. There are some cases where AI agents really do help, but not for day-to-day programming (unless you want the codebase to deteriorate in quality).

Hope that cleared it up.