Some say „this is mere tab completion“, some say „it won’t replace the senior engineer.“

I can remember how many fiercely argued 2 years ago that GenAI and Copilot are producing garbage. But here we are: These systems improve the workflow of creating / editing code enormously. You seniors might not be affected, but there are endless many scenarios where it replaces the junior who‘d write code to transform data, write scripts, write one-off scripts, or even write boilerplate, test code and what not.

And this is only after a short time. I cannot even imagine what we‘ll have ten years from now where we can propably have much larger context windows where the system can „unterstand“ the whole code base, not just parts.

I am sorry for low level engineering jobs, but I am super exited as well.

With GebAI I have been writing super complex Elisp code to automate workflow in Emacs, or VBA scripts in Excel, or Bash scripts I wouldn’t have otherwise been able to write, or JavaScript, or quickly write Python code to solve very tricky problems (and I am very high level in Python), or even React code for web apps for my personal use.

The future looks exiting to me.