On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. http://www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/4/5/114595093/ai_and_motivation.pdf
I certainly have lost motivation knowing I’m dealing with AI generated PRs, and code bases increasingly riddled with the stuff. Why even bother when that’s the level of quality that work now considers good enough?