Comment by flkiwi

I tend to agree with the gist of this, namely that the change is here and "AI" presents some huge potential to save me from having to do the tedious stuff. But we do need a bit of a sanity check. I'm in the middle of trying to convince any of the AIs that I have access to to write me some simple Lua. Specifically, I'm trying to write a query that returns a certain subset of pages from the Silverbullet V2 note tool. This isn't particularly difficult, but it's become this hilarious journey to try to get the AI to figure this problem out. Silverbullet is a niche use case, v2 even more so, but a reasonably skilled developer could peruse the API documentation and come up with a pretty good starting point. AI tools? Absolutely insane wrong answers. I finally specifically asked one or two of them not to guess with their answers and they just straight up said "nah, we don't know how to do this."

Point being: there's some real power in these tools, but if the ground is not already well-trodden, they risk creating a huge time sink that could be better served just learning to do the thing yourself.