I didn't ask for this and neither did you. I didn't ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off of it. I didn't ask for the role of a programmer to be reduced to that…

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AI coding tools are fundamentally changing software development, forcing developers to choose between moral principles and career survival. While AI can generate code faster and potentially better than humans, this shift transforms programming from a craft into code review and oversight. Senior developers face pressure to adopt these tools or risk being outpaced by junior colleagues using AI assistants. The transition marks the end of hand-coding as a craft, similar to how blacksmithing became obsolete, leaving experienced developers to mourn the loss of creative satisfaction and personal ownership in their work.

We mourn our craft

No WE don’t. don’t speak for others

The progress just handed the author a tool that makes him 10x more productive, what is he mourning about?

So code review and oversight is not a craft? ;)

As an engineer who suffered a stroke but continues to work with the help of AI-assisted code writing, I can attest that these tools have been almost a godsend.
However, they still lack a crucial aspect of problem-solving logic. One significant flaw is that AI tools assume each tool they use is perfect, and if the tool they’re using has bugs, the AI will continue to loop and try to use it, blaming itself for the error rather than identifying the issue with the tool.
It took me just two minutes to write a bash script to wrap the tool and fix the bug by properly escaping double quotes.
This is what makes human valuable, we dont try to appease our prompts :3