Chatbots enable unskilled developers to go in way out of their depth with little resistance. This creates problems of a new nature, not just more problems of the same nature as before.
Previously in my career, a junior making a mistake and being told why it was a mistake would learn from that and improve. The junior-chatbot duo will not. The junior will feed my comment into the chatbot, and the chatbot will superficially give the impression of having learned from the mistake and fix the code while introducing the same problem somewhere else, and the junior will have learned nothing.
This all requires that I review code as though it was created by some kind of cursed monkey's paw with an endless number of fingers that each grants a wish of the operator with a devastating caveat through idiotic interpretation.
If you give a toddler who can otherwise not operate a chainsaw -- for the simple reason that they don't have the strength to start it using the starter rope -- access to a robot who will turn on the chainsaw for them on command, you've created a problem which didn't exist before.
I understand that unskilled people are creating problems for themselves and others; but that doesn't interest me. I interpret everything from the point of view of the AI being used by skilled people.
Such as the claim "AI demands more engineering discipline, not less" ... of skilled people, not irrelevant unskilled people.
Unskilled people are not irrelevant if you intend on working with other people, in which case you will need to deal with them in one way or another.
I will probably be dealing with them in the future more than in the past because chatbots bypass the process by which unskilled people generally become skilled people.
Previously in my career, a junior making a mistake and being told why it was a mistake would learn from that and improve. The junior-chatbot duo will not. The junior will feed my comment into the chatbot, and the chatbot will superficially give the impression of having learned from the mistake and fix the code while introducing the same problem somewhere else, and the junior will have learned nothing.
This all requires that I review code as though it was created by some kind of cursed monkey's paw with an endless number of fingers that each grants a wish of the operator with a devastating caveat through idiotic interpretation.
If you give a toddler who can otherwise not operate a chainsaw -- for the simple reason that they don't have the strength to start it using the starter rope -- access to a robot who will turn on the chainsaw for them on command, you've created a problem which didn't exist before.