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What I hear from young, new students in university is that "no one writes code anymore", and they use AI for every single piece of code they need to write. Assignments? They use AI to do them. Learning exercises? They let AI do them. Well, it's everywhere really. They open VSCode (or even Cursor these days, WTF) and, if not through a prompt, it's through that goddamn Copilot autocomplete. My guess is that, in the future, there will be a boom in managing positions, like Product Manager, because those folks will not be technical enough to be Software Engineers. Even if they did study important stuff during the course, without writing code it's really hard to learn concepts. The "trial and error" process is very important for learning and it's a mistake to give that away. Last but not least, besides this learning situation, there are ethical aspects about AI that are rarely questioned. How come an individual like me is more concerned about this than universities themselves? There should be policies about AI usage for assignments et al. We will not only graduate incomplete professionals, but we will slowly erase all the good notion about software and collaboration, to a point where people will no longer care about licenses, contribution, respect, etc. #AI #LLM #SoftwareEngineering