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Director Of Engineering at UpContent

I'll admit I've been using using JetBrains copilot equivalent to right click and generate unit tests lately and the unit tests it created actually favored a contextual understanding of the code enough to write tests to match my intent rather than mechanics and critically actually catch bugs in my actual handwritten code. I do worry a lot about junior devs over using AI and making themselves useless hires because of it but I think in the hands of a responsible senior+ dev or particularly thoughtful mid level dev I think a Human+AI strategy can be a real productivity gain.

Jordan Koschei

Building ConnectHV for the Hudson Valley / Principal Product Designer at Okta

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I've been using Cursor to generate tests for my side project and it's been impressively good with understanding my intent rather than what I've actually written! It's caught a bunch of thorny bugs that would've taken me a while to notice. I 100% agree, though — it's effective because it's stuff I could do myself, so it's just accelerating my work rather than doing stuff that's totally new to me. The upcoming generation of engineers are going to have to fight hard against the temptation to outsource all their thinking to AI. (Your post also made me think of this line I read recently, not sure who to attribute it to: "AI is not going to replace humans, but humans with AI are going to replace humans without AI.")

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