The future of software development is software developers

This...

I have said this in multiple other comments and I 100% agree with the author's take.

I feel like AI can be good for prototyping sometimes but that's about it.

The reason is simple but I just don't trust AI system from not breaking given their volatile nature and I wouldn't expect to be paying for AI generated code that much/zero to be honest

And I will treat other people the same way I wish to be treated (golden rule) so why would I use AI when I can do things by my hand? (There are also 1000's of other discussions I can point in the moral,financial,even technological impacts of the whole situation)

That being said, prototyping as author pointed out feels the only good use to me because at that point you are building it for yourself or a small community. I think a good use of AI can be to build open source prototypes of softwares and if you really like something, one can rebuild it or build it the way they like it as an example.

Prototyping can be similar to the drag n drop and other things and honestly wordpress did reduce the number of programmers needed to maintain a website and for good measure, I think AI is similar to this then anything else and even then small models will win as author states and so the financial point of these companies training these usually becomes moot.

So till the time being, I use these free/subsidized websites to get prototypes to be generated but I feel as if long term, I can find projects which heavily resonate with me and I can build them/learn languages catered to them and build my mental model of thinking around them

Although I must admit, prototyping using AI models definitely gives me Imposter syndrome and I sometimes feel that perhaps its a learning opportunity and that I can perhaps instead spend hours but I don't really know too much about it so its something that I am figuring out as we speak

Like there is this feeling that I can spend more hours and feel more "proud" of what I did if I did it without AI than if I did with AI since perhaps the journey matters too. I really don't know but just weighing all my thoughts on the matter as I thought about it really closely once.

Edit: although I am not sure about calling AI wordpress-like since then it would mean that I am giving significance to AI similar to wordpress, honestly I respect wordpress more but not sure, perhaps they are similar, perhaps they are not, I don't really know perhaps but what I do know is that the financial impact of the AI bubble is gonna impact all of us negatively.

I 100% share the codependent path too and had written a similar comment some 2-3 days ago but these AI companies which provide are either seriously negative/loss making subsidizing or they are barely net zero. I doubt that it will continue and so the bubble will burst I guess and prices of these will rise perhaps

We will see perhaps something like google which can feed on advertising can perhaps still provide such subsidies for a longer time but the fact of the matter is that I have no alleigance to any model as some might have and I will simply shift to the cheapest thing which can still provide me / be enough for my queries or prototypes mostly I suppose.

But still, right now, you don't have to worry as even these SotA models are subsidized really so much and you can just use them for free on websites and then if you don't even want to type, go use a cheaper model or even a free model with something like opencode even to then act as a mini agent of things

Usually I just end up it being more focused in a single file which isn't really the best practise but its usually for prototyping purposes anyway so it ends up being really good

uv scripts are good for python, and I usually create golang single main.go files as well as I feel like it can be a binary, compile fast and cross compilation and still easy and simple so yeah :)

Plus those meals are disgusting! :-)

Plus plus… those meals are actually expensive!!

In the current architecture there are mathmatical limitations on what it can do with information. However, tool use and external orchestration allow it to work around many (maybe all) those limitations.

The current models have brittle parts and some bad tendencies.. but they will continue to eat up the executive thought ladder.

I think it is better to understand this and position yourself higher and higher on that chain while learning what are the weak areas in the current generation of models.

Your line of thinking is like hiding in a corner while the water is rising. You are right, it is a safe corner, but probably not for long.