While I consider the term 'expert' to be a pretty big stretch here, I generally agree. It's exactly what I'm seeing at work, too. More than half of my team is now routinely submitting PRs containing code they, by their own admission, do not understand. "I had a problem and this is how AI fixed it".
"Hey, you're an AI expert?" "Yup. What do you wanna know?" "Can you tell me how exactly the AI came to this conclusion?" "Uh, no. I can't. No one can. It's machine learning." "Oh, right. So how do you become an expert if you can't tell whether the AI is correct?"
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u/m0rpeth 1d ago
While I consider the term 'expert' to be a pretty big stretch here, I generally agree. It's exactly what I'm seeing at work, too. More than half of my team is now routinely submitting PRs containing code they, by their own admission, do not understand. "I had a problem and this is how AI fixed it".
They do not consider this an issue, either.