Comment by Seb-C

> 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.