We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak

This AI stuff is annoying me. I don't work in development - I'm a pentester and recently had to work on some scripts with a colleague.

He is a few years my senior and basically completely relies on ChatGPT for simple string matching and splitting in bash. I could not believe my eyes. He got ChatGPT to spit out a command that didn't work exactly as we needed it to because it was looking for the wrong string. It was a really simple fix but he again had to ask ChatGPT for how to fix it, until I was like "let me do it".

It's not that he's dumb or anything, but I feel like he just grew completely lazy from that and doesn't even want to think anymore. Later on he was troubleshooting the same script for a few hours until he noticed that ChatGPT output messed up the order of lines and tried to access a variable that was only declared in the next line.

I think ChatGPT and whatever else are really useful tools, but people tend to use them as shortcuts to learning instead of getting things done quicker. That is in everyone's own responsibility - I just have the hunch that my job will get way more interesting with a new generation of incompetent developers 😁