Comment by cjonas
4 months ago
It totally depends on the use case.
As a consultant the majority of my work is around business process automation and integrating cloud systems. We build a lot of small "applications" that change almost constantly. The number of concurrent users is low, the lifespan of the software typically short and to justify the effort has to be done quickly and efficiently.
It's 100% "value engineering".
AI agent pairing has been an absolute game changer. It can single shot most requirements and refactors. I basically am just writing technical requirements and reading pull requests all day now.
I actually think the quality of the output has gone up significantly because you can just accomplish much more in the same limited budget.
Yes not all coding is equal. A bit like not all wordsmithing is equal. A presidential speech is not the same as an airplane safety announcement, even they can both be encoded as words.