A reflective piece on the psychological and ethical experience of using AI code assistants like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. It explores two camps of developers: enthusiastic adopters who embrace vibe coding for productivity gains, and 'craftspeople' who find the shift troubling. The author examines the seductive pull of AI tools despite awareness of their environmental and social costs, the tension between individual ethics and economic necessity, and what the future of software engineering might look like as these tools become entrenched.
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