Strong plus one. This is more or less what my company is working on -- more and more ostensibly nontechnical people are able to contribute to codebases with seasoned engineers.
> ostensibly nontechnical people are able to contribute to codebases with seasoned engineers.
Who is the contributor then? The AI or the prompt writer?
I mean I'd be more at ease if they would just contribute their prompt instead. And then, what value does that actually have? So many mixed feelings here.
At work I had a React dev merging Java code into a rather complex project. It was clearly heavily prompt assisted, and looked like the code the junior Java developer would have written. The difference is that the junior Java developer probably would have sweated a couple of days over that code, so she would know it inside out and could maintain it. The React dev would just write more prompts or ask the AI to do it.
If we're confident that prompting creates good code and solid projects, well then we don't need expensive developers anymore do we?
