Are Devs Becoming Lazy? The Rise of AI and the Decline of Care

Post by abnercoimbre » Sat, Nov 09, 2024, 6:19 AM UTC

swatcoder wrote: post #40

rsanheim wrote: post #9

> In the old days, developers had to really know their stuff. Coding wasn’t just a checklist—it was a craft, and every line was written with care. you've lost me here. Caring and attention to quality have always been in short supply. Or supply _and_ demand when I think of some of the startups I've worked for.

Would you believe we were once writing code without going online and with just a few essential commercial libraries, if anything besides what our OS and toolchain provides at all? We'd literally have to keep a mental model of our code and all the things it touches and would personally write the utilities we needed to get it done. Of course it's absurd to claim "every line was written with care" but there really has b…

Post by nunez » Sun, Nov 10, 2024, 9:10 PM UTC

0x000xca0xfe wrote: post #43

nunez wrote: post #41

The adoption of AI in software development is absolutely mental to me. We as a collective are literally and willingly forfeiting our core skillset to technology that can only be operated by four huge tech companies that is known to get things seriously wrong. The I Got Mine mentality that justifies it all is staggering.

Good quality LLMs run offline and locally on average PCs. And most software developers have always embraced new technologies that make us more productive. This is not the first time writing software got a lot more accessible and it won't be the last.