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calle 6mo ago

Developers make this mistake all the time: It's a fallacy to compare a good coder against an AI. The coder will always be better. This is how many professional justify their hesitation to use these new tools. I've had this conversation dozens of times, mostly with the older generation.

📢 The comparison you should be making is between a good *coder without and AI* against a good *coder with an AI*.

You're not competing against the machine. You're competing against humans that master the machine.

You will either learn to use the machine or you will be replaced. There's no nice way to say this.

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ynniv 6mo ago

Also, they're getting better faster than we are. Hold on tight

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calle 6mo ago

Much faster. I will never become 2x more efficient at hand-coding in my lifetime. However I've become multiple x faster vibe-coding within a few years simply because the tools are getting better, and we're just getting started.

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ynniv 6mo ago

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Alejandro 6mo ago

Agree. The AI on its own generates a lot of unnecessary code. That will change in the future but still, it’s about becoming X times more efficient

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DataNostrum 6mo ago

For now at least. I believe Gary Kasparov was saying the same thing in the context of chess, but that was over after a couple of years

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OKIN 6mo ago

Spot on! 🦾

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heidi-E 6mo ago

I often think of the days, weeks and maybe even year of my life I could have had back in my life if I could have said to a machine - help me find this bug.

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heidi-E 6mo ago

Also I was also really good at looking at other people’s code when they couldn’t see the issue-could have that time back too. Although not as convivial.