The most surreal thing about AI coding shit taking on is the revelation that so many people who do this thing that I love, seem to have no care for the craft at all. Even people who I would have pointed at, years ago, as those who clearly care. And I know it has always been Just A Job for many people, but holy shit, do you even care a little bit?
We humans are not merely bad at it, we have people who have been doing the work with no desire to be good at it in the first place.
If you don’t like programming, I invite you to do something else with your time instead of promoting the machine that lets you not do it. Some people actually like it, you jerks.
I know a non-trivial amount of people who cannot code, but who use AI to make programs. They get excited from being able to create. And I find that great.
Their annoying mistake is that since AI enabled them to go from being unable to being able to make programs, it will make a developer who already can code better at making programs.
It's like offering a wheelchair to somebody that walks: just because it allows somebody with broken legs to move, it does not make the walking better at walking. But it has a place in aiding those that cannot move without it.
@michael Thing is, it doesn't make you "able to create."
It provides a convenient way of getting the thing.
This, to me, is the second most telling delusion around these things, after seeing them as sentient.
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It absolutely does. It does not allow you to create the same way a developer does, but it allows creating anyway. Coding is a small part of software development: design and analysis is a much larger part for most projects, and while LLMs can be used to spar about that (to some more or less meaningful extent), you still need to do that.
Saying code made using an LLM isn't legitimate is just as meaningful as saying that code made using a high-level language is less legitimate than code made in assembler.
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