I was helping a relative still in college with a project, and I was struck by how lackadaisical they are about cut-and-pasting huge chunks of code from chatgpt into whatever module they are building without thinking about why, or what it does, or where it fits, as long as it works. It doesn't help that it's all relatively same-looking Javascript so frontend or backend is kinda mixed together. The troubleshooting help I provided was basically untangling the mess by going from first principles and figuring out what goes where. I can tell you I did not feel threatened by the AI there at all, if anything I felt bad for the juniors and feeling like this is what we old people are going to end up having to support very soon.
Not sure how accurate these numbers are but on https://openrouter.ai/ highest used "apps" basically can auto-accept generated code and apply it to the project. I was recently looking at top performers on https://www.swebench.com/ and noticed OpenHands basically does the same thing or similar. I think the trend is going to get much worse, and I don't think Moore's Law is going to save us from the resulting chaos.
