EDIT: please read all of the post before commenting, quite a few people understood nothing (or the opposite) of what I meant and it's sad I've been thinking, over the last year developers have started to rely on genAI quite a lot, I see people around me boast that they haven't written a single line of code in months Quite often when colleagues show me ideas they have to solve a problem it's a markdown list clearly made by an AI I feel like people are so enthusiastic about just handing over their job to genAI models I've been told that if I am a good software engineer I should be ok with supervising AI while they write code for me "so I can focus on the bigger picture" I know I'm a good engineer I can design solutions and lead teams but I also like solving problems myself, I like c...