Comment by bitwize

I'm aware I didn't build the things I depend on—OS, language runtimes, etc. But if I use AI to build the thing I'm building, I'm not really building it—I'm asking someone else to. We've been hoodwinked into believing that AI code generation is just a tool, but it's not—it's a service. You're asking OpenAI or Anthropic to make all but the highest level decisions and write the program you described. It's just done automatically by machine. I feel the same way about AI-generated other things too. What else is paying money, submitting a description, and getting back an image or a song but a commission?

If that's the tradeoff a business wants to make, that's their call. But AI-assisted development really is just outsourcing with a bigger carbon footprint.