AI generation when writing software is a false economy. You are replacing writing code with code review. Code review is harder and requires you to already have an understanding of the domain which often means that you would’ve even able to write it yourself to begin with. If you code gen something because you don’t know how to write it yourself, you by definition cannot review it without going though an effort equivalent to writing it yourself in the first place.

Unless of course you don’t care about code review and so doom yourself into treating software like magical incantations that break randomly for no perceivable reason; but no good mage would do that, surely.

@mary I'm just getting started with github copilot, but as a platform admin rather than developer, I'm finding it useful in smaller ways. Create a few tasks for an Ansible playbook, create a function for a script. Of course we still need to review and test, but it's a jump start on the process.
Yes, we still need the skills, but if it shaves off an hour a month it's paid for.