Comment by mockingloris
5 days ago
Very well said. Just because AI can churn out a usable code project as fast as it takes for my cup garri to soak(3 mins) doesn't mean it should be used that way.
It takes mastery, just like with actual programming syntax. There are many ways to achieve a business objective. Choosing the right one for the specific use case and expected outcome takes iterations.
AI HAS replaced whole niche markets and it's just the beginning. The best any dev can do in this context is sharpen their use of it. That becomes a superpower; well defined context and one's own good grasp of the tech stack being worked on.
Context: I still lookup rust docs and even prompt for summaries and bullet point facts about rust idioms for better understanding of the code. I identify as a JS dev first but, currently learning rust as I work on a passion project.
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Agreed, I only think people get lazy with AI if they let the AI do the thinking for them, rather than using it as a thinking machine to push their level of thinking wherever they are.
In a way, LLMs are a fuzzy semantic relation engine and you can almost get to the point of running many forecasts or scenarios of how to solve a problem, or it could be solved, long before daring to write a user story or spec for how to write it.
The issue with industrial software development is it's incremental at best, and setting those vectors from the start of a project can benefit from a more accurate approach that reflects how projects often really start, instead of trying to 1-10 shot things, which can be fun, but not always sustainable.
It can be very benefical I find to require AI to explain and teach you at al times so it's keeping the line of thought and "reasoning" aligned.