Comment by j45

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.