I could not agree more. AI is Great for Juniors to quickly have something Running and it definitely lowers the barrier of entry, which is fantastic! A colleague of mine told me his son made a PH meter for them and how impressed he was that he could code for a microcontroller. It turned out that he used chatGPT to write the code and couldn’t figure it out once it stopped working for some reason.
I still believe this is a great opportunity to really learn and broaden his horizons by troubleshooting and truly getting to understand the system this way.
If I was young and couldn’t code I’d use the AI tools in a heartbeat, but making low impact code is entirely different from architecting and writing mission critical code.
Very well written article.
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I could not agree more. AI is Great for Juniors to quickly have something Running and it definitely lowers the barrier of entry, which is fantastic! A colleague of mine told me his son made a PH meter for them and how impressed he was that he could code for a microcontroller. It turned out that he used chatGPT to write the code and couldn’t figure it out once it stopped working for some reason. I still believe this is a great opportunity to really learn and broaden his horizons by troubleshooting and truly getting to understand the system this way. If I was young and couldn’t code I’d use the AI tools in a heartbeat, but making low impact code is entirely different from architecting and writing mission critical code. Very well written article.