>Should we as developers put more effort into defending our craft?
No.
Nobody worried about optimizing compliers taking the jobs of assembly programmers.
Tools make us able to do _more_ not less. This is just one more. And it happens to be pretty good at doing obvious boring things that have been done a million times which most of us don't want to do anyway.
Like recently I needed to design a nice html error page, I don't have a designer to go to, and it wasn't really a big enough deal for that kind of thing anyway. Instead of having to dust off a bunch of web design skills and spend a long time figuring out fiddly little style sheet things... or just doing a terrible job... I asked AI to do it. 90% of the work was done in 10 seconds, then I spent 5 minutes polishing it. If I did it myself it would either have been a couple of hours to get something as nice or for the same 5 minutes I could have done a shit job. Nobody lost work because of AI that day, I was just able to do more important things than make an internal developer-facing error page look nice.
No.
Nobody worried about optimizing compliers taking the jobs of assembly programmers.
Tools make us able to do _more_ not less. This is just one more. And it happens to be pretty good at doing obvious boring things that have been done a million times which most of us don't want to do anyway.
Like recently I needed to design a nice html error page, I don't have a designer to go to, and it wasn't really a big enough deal for that kind of thing anyway. Instead of having to dust off a bunch of web design skills and spend a long time figuring out fiddly little style sheet things... or just doing a terrible job... I asked AI to do it. 90% of the work was done in 10 seconds, then I spent 5 minutes polishing it. If I did it myself it would either have been a couple of hours to get something as nice or for the same 5 minutes I could have done a shit job. Nobody lost work because of AI that day, I was just able to do more important things than make an internal developer-facing error page look nice.