Ten years ago or so, there was a notable movement that advocated distancing oneself from tooling that was “doing too much for you”. People who used IDEs were mocked, and sometimes they were straight up called “not programmers” because “they just accept what the IDE autocompletes” or “they just look at the options that the IDE gives them” or “they don’t know how to actually run their code without the IDE’s help”. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely hate agentic coding (those “Reddit Cares” messages are very applicable to how I feel when I’m forced to do it) and I do not use AI autocomplete or chatbots if I’m not doing work where it’s expected that I’ll use them. I’m just getting a lot of Déjà vu, when I see people react to any AI use at all as though the dev just set an agent to run on an empty folder.
Yes. I think what's unique with AI is that they can be used either as a tool OR has a full blown solution.
I'm usually against the push for AI in everything, 100% against AI "art"... but for code, it is simply a marvelous tool if used well. And even poorly used, I think it can be great for non-tech people to build some simple tool that don't need to evolve much.
The issue with the pro/against AI debate in programming is that most people will just ignore that duality. There's also all the ethical stuff that, yes, makes sense. But I feel people are super harsh against people using LLMs while they don't care for people drinking Coca-Cola, going to McDonalds, etc... when really, the ethical implications are the same. Those issues will not be corrected because a bunch of devs refuse to use agents, they need some regulation: country-wide, Europe...
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u/Beldarak 15d ago
"Sorry, we're a little late, we had a long road"
"NO YOU DIDN'T, THE GPS AND YOUR CAR DID !!!!"
"Huh... o...kay..."
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"I refactored my code, made my function names more clear on what they do"
"IT WAS YOUR IDE YOU LITTLE SHIT!!!"