Comment by steveklabnik
6 days ago
> Is this what people are really doing?
Some people are, and some people are not. This is where some of the disconnect is coming from.
> Who is just turning AI loose to modify things as it sees fit?
In the advent of source control, why not? If it does something egregiously wrong, you can throw it away easily and get back to a previous state with ease.
> If I'm not directing the work, how does it even know what to do?
You're directing the work, but at a higher level of abstraction.
> You're directing the work, but at a higher level of abstraction.
The article likens this to a Makefile. I gotta say, why not just use a Makefile and save the CO2?
Being kind of like a Makefile does not mean that they're equivalent. They're different tools, good for different things. That they happen to both be higher level than source code doesn't mean that they're substitutes.