@bbatsov I'd mainly want to discuss on the basis of the chapter »Do you even need a “power tool” anymore?«.

You write »all of it is in service of making the human more efficient at the mechanical act of coding« — but that's not the point: it's to give the human a faster way to put their thoughts to canvas, thus reducing interruption of those thoughts, and to give them more time to /have/ thoughts.

Put that way, I don't see how LLMs help at all, and frankly, I actually do believe they don't.

@bbatsov You write: »Cursor can scaffold an entire application in an afternoon« — but it can't. It can throw together random existing snippets that look like they might plausibly work, and iterate on them until it compiles and, if it is nothing innovative, might even resemble something you expected too.

Imagine a random PO send you some code with the note »hey, I just made this, can you put it into prod?« — aren't you shuddering? This is just automated script kiddies with even less props.