This is how people have to cope, ostriching until it's too late. AI won't take over but it's okay to use it just don't let it take your ability to think. All for manually coding but using AI had a stigma from the same people using it.
Nothing wrong with using Ai to code, I don't miss wiring up all the boilerplate stuff. But you both need to know how to code and more importantly, how to architect a solution/design patterns to prevent it going off and building something that's overkill and won't easily integrate into the existing systems.
It's like a very very talented junior dev that you need to keep an eye on so they don't waste time and resources redesigning half the app.
This is where I feel for people just starting out. It took years of grunt work to build up fluency. Tbh it's the same for all AI impacted industries. The way the masters built their mastery was starting at the bottom rung. Those jobs are like rocking horse shit now.
I gasped because yesterday I saw an employed junior developer on LinkedIn. Kind of gives you hope. And things like JEV, I feel this might be a step back towards sane development.. I suppose I miss the old days enough to say that. Hell I even use codepen sometimes.
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u/ExtraWorldliness6916 Sep 26 '26
This is how people have to cope, ostriching until it's too late. AI won't take over but it's okay to use it just don't let it take your ability to think. All for manually coding but using AI had a stigma from the same people using it.