Comment by tangotaylor

I think there's some truth here in that AI can be used as a band-aid to sweep issues of bad abstractions or terse syntax under the rug.

For example, I often find myself reaching for Cursor/ChatGPT to help me with simple things in bash scripts (like argument parsing, looping through arrays, associative maps, handling spaces in inputs) because the syntax just isn't intuitive to me. But I can easily do these things in Python without asking an AI.

I'm not a web developer but I imagine issues of boilerplate or awkward syntax could be solved with more "thinking" instead of using the AI as a better abstraction to the bad abstractions in your codebase.