On Tue, 2025-07-01 at 10:02 +0100, Graham King wrote:
> I'm no longer professionally in IT, and never was in software
> development, but I recently had an interesting conversation with two
> friends who are.
> Both their companies expect job candidates to use AI in their
> technical
> interview. Candidates who do not do so will lose credit.
> My friends each use AI to inspire solutions to difficult programming
> problems.
> We identified a couple of issues:
> 1. Where an AI-inspired solution involves major code change, the
> value
> of source code control is diminished, and human comprehension of the
> code base can be eroded.
> 2. Older programmers have "earned their stripes" and can presumably
> assess AI-contributed code with their critical faculties engaged.
> There is some concern whether AI will, over time, remove selection
> pressure for such a skill from the programming gene pool.
>
Oh, and...
3. How to manage 1. and 2. in the face of commercial/economic/time
pressure for hastily-implemented short-term fixes.
