What am I Paid for?

Now, if you ask me in my personal time about the thing we are calling AI, Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), I would list off one of the many, many reasons that I refuse to use the giant end-game-capitalism copyright-theft machine. However, I am employed in a technical capacity, and that means during my job I have to leverage GenAI in order to stay relevant. I don’t tend to talk about it publicly, because there are so, so, so many posts about it already. You are not short of other things to read about how it’s going to reshape the human condition, or murder your grandmother with a Greggs Sausage Roll at the first opportunity. However, I do want to talk about my recent usage at work. Reframing what am I paid to do One of my first reactions to seeing tools like Copilot generate code, was similar to many other developers; that my job was in danger. If the GenAI tools can write an entire app in under an hour with a sufficiently good prompt, what will I do until I retire? I need…