GM. I fully agree but I also hate it. But I still agree.
Discussion
why hate
I'm working together with people that code with chatgpt only. They don't know when chatgpt comes up with inventing non existing libraries or when it misunderstood what to do and just build from there. Letting go of at least understanding what's happening it not great, but then again manually doing everything is also painful sometimes. You kinda need at least an understanding when it goes wrong. And when that gets lost we will solely depend on machines understanding us and not inventing things.
i spend so many neural cycles thinking about program structure. It leads to efficient code that is nice to read… but is it a good use of my time? Im not so sure. Maybe i’m just training data at this point.
If ai gets good enough to get 80% of the code quality but i can do 10x more, maybe its better… the ai is not good enough yet to build whole projects like nostrdb, but I’m sure its inevitable.
Yes, don't get me wrong. Using ai for these things is very useful. But the whole new generation of programmers that fully depends on AI scares me a bit. At least right now. Maybe in the future when models get 100% it's gonna be different.
be careful with what you are training your own brain over and over 😉
And yes, I think AI will always be the tool to build even greater stuff.
To me this is similar to the web dev vs native debate:
IF your users would receive 10x value from that 20% native performance than it is well worth it.
Sometimes even 1% better makes an enormous difference on the market.
However, while the web-native tradeoff is pretty clear, I am sceptic towards how far this particular direction we have today in AI can get. Perhaps a different paradigm.
My guess is, we are not replacing humans completely in programming until real AGI comes along but the need will shift to the non-standard stuff: Mainly creative challenges with far-reaching consequences like architectural or UX decisions.