Comment by doug_durham
6 hours ago
Do you honestly get satisfaction out of writing code that you've written dozens of times in your career? Does writing yet another REST client endpoint fill you with satisfaction? Software is my passion, but I want to write code where I can add the maximum value. I add more value by using my experience solving new problems that rehashing code I've written before. Using GenAI as a helper tool allows me to quickly write the boilerplate and get to the value-add. I review every line of code written before sending it for PR review. That's not controversial, it's just good engineering.
Sounds like eventually we will end up in a situations where engineers/developers will end up on an AI spectrum:
- No ai engineers - Minimal AI autocomplete engineers - Simple agentic developers - Vibe coders who review code they get - Complete YOLO vibe coders who have no clue how their "apps" work
And that spectrum will also correlate to the skill level in engineering: from people who understand what they are doing and what their code is doing - to people who have lost (or never even had) software engineering skills and who only know how to count lines of code and write .md files.