Comment by lelandbatey
6 days ago
If you read post, the article is mostly agreeing with you. What they're pointing out is not "the AI can do everything you do", it's that "an AI coder can do a lot of the boring typing a lot faster than you, leaving you right at the point of 'real implementation'".
Having something else write a lot of the boring code that you'll need and then you finish up the final touches, that's amazing and a huge accelerator (so they claim).
The claim is not "AI will replace us all", the claim of the parent article is "AI is a big deal and will change how we work, the same way IDEs/copy-paste/autocomplete/online documentation have radically changed our work."
> an AI coder can do a lot of the boring typing a lot faster than you, leaving you right at the point of 'real implementation
Vim and bash solved that for me a long time ago in a more reliable and efficient way (and it's certainly not the only tool capable of that).
> the same way IDEs/copy-paste/autocomplete/online documentation have radically changed our work
I was there before and went in the autocomplete/lsp thing pretty late (because Vim didn't have good lsp support for a long time, and Vim without it was still making me more efficient than any other IDE with it). Those things didn't radically change our work as you claim, it just made us a bit more productive.