It isn’t whether AI will make developers redundant, productive or distracted; it’s that AI will make code disposable

There’s a lot of hand wringing going on over the impact of AI in software development. Depending on who you ask, AI (a) will eliminate the need for junior developers; (b) will make highly skilled developers an order of magnitude more productive; or (c) will never level up to a human developer, capable only at best at providing suggestions, at worst putting a developer in a premature debug cycle…