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The app doesn't do this... (AI makes changes) Run again
It's good for POCs in unknown tech territory
I just don't feel good about it
It is funny when you run out of tokens
I’m a Luddite when it comes to this stuff as well. I use it, but mostly just in Ask mode. The agentic stuff I do not like at all. It’s not perfect, and that means I have to troubleshoot and fix it anyway, so I would just assume do it myself so I properly understand what’s going on and can speak to it and be accountable for it. Lucky for me, my management talks about AI a lot, but they’re not over my shoulder hitting…
Times change. You’re just sad the times changed for you in a way you didn’t like.
So use it. I've been programming for 45 years, and I've found it to be a really useful tool.
I'm still writing code, still doing all the fun stuff, but I'm moving along MUCH faster than before. Mostly because when I get stuck I ask the AI questions. About the code, about the API I'm talking to and so on. In the past I remember spending days finding really obscure bugs, or reading soooo much material to try and figure out that "in this case call A before B, but in that case call A before C.".
To me, it's made programming (the creative) part more fun, while removing the unfun stuff (like bug fixing.)
I'm using "chat" more than agents though - The AI doesn't edit my code directly.
My company doesn't really care how we use it, just as long as we use it to make ourselves faster. "Ignoring" it out of some nostalgia for the past is not helpful from an employer perspective.
I certainly don't miss the pre-internet days (when you sought out programming books, and coded with a reference manual in one hand) or the even the google days where trying to do the right search lead you to some answer you could kinda interpret.
Blinkenlichtdenkmaschinenberufsverlustverzweiflung.
The terms are Zoomer, Bloomer, Gloomer or Doomer. Personally I'm a bit of an AI Gloomer because I do think it's effectively inevitable, and putting people out of work is not a good thing. People out of work eventually tend to do desperate things. Not a doomer because I don't think it's going to literally end the world.
From my perspective it's not about losing the job, it's that I don't use my brain anymore, I just write words... sure you need some architecture but I don't feel as engaged anymore, like I'm the one shaping the wood vs. a 3D printer making it kind of thing. I was thinking of analogies like driving through a track vs. just teleporting to the end of it... it seems inevitable, companies are about shipping features. That…
I am self employed and coding is not my main job though. No one is forcing my hand.