Mastodawn

I wrote up a thing about the AI coding agents https://www.neilhenning.dev/posts/five-stages-grief/

Five Stages of Grief With the Rise of AI

I tried copilot in VS Code sometime in 2025 and was thoroughly disappointed with its ability. It felt like a really bad auto-complete at best, making plenty of mistakes and generally being utterly irritating to actually use with its need to constantly pop in as I was typing with long form coding suggestions that were often wrong. I was already predisposed to being negative about AI due to the usual mix of reasons and wrote off all the AI coding tools as useless.

Neil Henning

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Chad Austin

@neilhenning Good summary of the emotional experience. We’re grieving the shift in how our careers looked for decades. Fastest technology transition I’ve ever seen, by far. Since November, we’ve gone from a few Claude users to near 100% of the team. Now the question is how much AI can we all reasonably drive at the same time. And how do we keep building guardrails. And how do we run it all more efficiently.