Overview
AI coding tools promise a productivity revolution, but the data tells a more complicated story. Junior developer hiring has collapsed 60%. A rigorous study shows AI makes developers slower, not faster—yet they believe the opposite. Tech CEOs violently disagree on whether we’re replacing workers or empowering them. In this head-to-head debate, two developers with opposite takes on AI will clash over the controversial questions shaping our profession: Are we automating ourselves out of jobs? Is AI-generated code creating a technical debt time bomb? And what should you actually do about it? No hype, no BS—just the uncomfortable truths about AI that the industry isn’t saying out loud.