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That’s fucking bleak. Maybe this is the dev equivalent of AI psychosis. AI paralysis?
More like "why the fuck would I walk all the way across the city now that I own a car"
Once you find out how a bunch of boring bulk tasks can be automated away and 20 hours of work turns into 20 minutes, you really dont wanna go back to the old way.
If someone asks me to code in C# without my IDE in notepad, can I do it? Sure
But it fuckin sucks losing all your hotkeys and refactor quick actions and auto complete and lsp error checking...
Would you find it weird for someone to state they'd rather use an IDE than not when coding, because it saves so much time/effort?
More like, “why would I, an avid runner, who has trained in running for over a decade, run five blocks when I can just drive”.
Not everyone that runs is an avid runner.
But I do feel like the analogies aren't that great. Coding in notepad instead of an IDE is dumb because IDEs work and don't really have any downsides. AI mostly seems to produce slop that barely works without a ton of cajoling.
What I meant with the runner analogy is that coding is a skill just like running. If you let a machine do it for you for long enough, you lose that skill.
Yeah I know, but if you really mean that analogy then the conclusion is that the normal thing for 99% of programmers to do should be to use AI. In the same way that 99% of people do not get around by running.
I don't agree with that yet - so far I've found AI to be a very fast but mediocre programmer. Kind of like giving a beginner access to all the documentation and a time machine. Sometimes that's exactly what you want. But definitely not most of the time.