there are very good programmers. and there are very good programmers that use AI to increase their productivity by multiple x.
who would win?
Are programmers equal? What is a programmer? AI is a tool. If you don’t use a tool that matches the task at hand you are not being efficient or precise. Now there are different tasks and different tools. And tools have positives and negatives. I have no problem acknowledging positives, but expect people to acknowledge the negatives