Comment by Imustaskforhelp

> The foreseeable future of software development is one where perhaps “AI” – in a much more modest form (e.g., a Java coding assistant built atop a basic language model) – is used to generate prototypes, and maybe for inline completion on production code and those sorts of minor things.

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I have said this in multiple other comments and I 100% agree with the author's take.

I feel like AI can be good for prototyping sometimes but that's about it.

The reason is simple but I just don't trust AI system from not breaking given their volatile nature and I wouldn't expect to be paying for AI generated code that much/zero to be honest

And I will treat other people the same way I wish to be treated (golden rule) so why would I use AI when I can do things by my hand? (There are also 1000's of other discussions I can point in the moral,financial,even technological impacts of the whole situation)

That being said, prototyping as author pointed out feels the only good use to me because at that point you are building it for yourself or a small community. I think a good use of AI can be to build open source prototypes of softwares and if you really like something, one can rebuild it or build it the way they like it as an example.

Prototyping can be similar to the drag n drop and other things and honestly wordpress did reduce the number of programmers needed to maintain a website and for good measure, I think AI is similar to this then anything else and even then small models will win as author states and so the financial point of these companies training these usually becomes moot.

So till the time being, I use these free/subsidized websites to get prototypes to be generated but I feel as if long term, I can find projects which heavily resonate with me and I can build them/learn languages catered to them and build my mental model of thinking around them

Although I must admit, prototyping using AI models definitely gives me Imposter syndrome and I sometimes feel that perhaps its a learning opportunity and that I can perhaps instead spend hours but I don't really know too much about it so its something that I am figuring out as we speak

Like there is this feeling that I can spend more hours and feel more "proud" of what I did if I did it without AI than if I did with AI since perhaps the journey matters too. I really don't know but just weighing all my thoughts on the matter as I thought about it really closely once.

Edit: although I am not sure about calling AI wordpress-like since then it would mean that I am giving significance to AI similar to wordpress, honestly I respect wordpress more but not sure, perhaps they are similar, perhaps they are not, I don't really know perhaps but what I do know is that the financial impact of the AI bubble is gonna impact all of us negatively.