Copilot doesn't make juniors dumber. It makes seniors lazier.

Everyone blames AI coding tools for ruining junior developers. Nobody talks about what it's doing to the seniors. I've been thinking about this for a while. The dominant narrative is that Copilot is creating a generation of developers who can't code without autocomplete. But I think we're looking at the wrong level of the org chart. The real problem isn't generation As of November 2023, GitHub Copilot counted with more than 1.8 million paid subscribers. There are immense amounts of...