Like most things, there isn’t an a/b divide but a spectrum between the two, and in this case it’s even more complicated because a society could take a collectivist view about one thing and an individualist view about others.

Work culture all over the world regardless of culture is fucked up.

Weird how you say collectivist like it’s a bad thing

Now, as for AI, it’s currently as good or “better” than about 40% of brand-new fresh from the BS program software engineers I have worked with. A year ago that number probably would have been 20%. So far it’s improving relatively quickly. The question is: will it plateau, or will it improve exponentially?

LOL sure

The point is that comparing AI tools to junior engineers is ridiculous in the first place. It is simply marketing.

AI tools are way less useful than a junior engineer, and they aren’t an investment that turns into a senior engineer either.