Developers on Autopilot: How AI Assistants Are Transforming Software Development

Are AI Tools Helping or Hurting Developers’ Core Skills?

Patrick Kalkman
Generative AI
Published in
8 min readMay 8, 2024

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An image of two individuals seated in an airplane cockpit. Both are wearing headsets and are surrounded by numerous digital screens displaying aviation instruments and coding interfaces. The cockpit is a blend of an aviation flight deck and a software development workspace, conveying a fusion of aviation and software development environments. The atmosphere is illuminated by the glow of the screens, highlighting the theme of developers on autopilot.
Autopilot in an airplane, image generated by Midjourney prompt by author.

On Dec. 28, 2014, flight 8501, an Airbus A320–200, crashed into the Java Sea just one hour after taking off from the Indonesian city of Surabaya. All 162 people on the plane lost their lives in the crash.

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