A spellchecker is a linter. LLMs are a false equivalency.

I have yet to see AI “used wisely.” It is always precisely as parent complained about: people who neither know nor care to learn about the subject of their profession using it as a shortcut. If that is to be the state of the field, then salaries need to be _drastically_ cut. There’s absolutely no reason that you should be paid six figures to ask an omniscient entity a question, and copy/paste the answer.

> They help you move faster, reduce routine effort

You cannot understand something if you don’t understand its fundamentals. Reducing routine effort translates to “I don’t want to write boilerplate.” And that’s fine, if and only if you already know how to write it, what it does, and why it is the way it is. Wax on, wax off.