Comment by skydhash

> the AI skeptics that remain in the software industry have put very little time into experimenting with AI coding.

Why does everyone assume that anyone that is slightly critical has no experience whatsoever with the thing they critic? That is very dismissive. As soon as you start working on something complex, the agent requires a lot of guidance from an expert. That's not what's being marketed.

If someone told you they have a supersonic jet, but then you see a small Cessna. Would you take them at face value?

> Most coding is in fact straightforward regurgitation of ideas and code a thousand other developers have already written.

Which is why everyone has been using libraries and framework in the past decades. And why people goes to conferences and buy books. No one is keen to reinvent everything from scratch. If you think that we manually code everything that means you don't know anything about developer practice. Most of development is keeping a strong model of the software and tweak things here and there.

> When we talk about “the middle”, you focus on the bit of critical logic there while I am focusing on the vast amount of logic there that is deeply uninteresting.

Why is it uninteresting? It seems that the only people not interested in code are the ones that are not responsible for it when it's in production.

> You’ve seemingly manufactured a scenario in your head where I have AI producing code for no purpose

No, I'm asking how are you maintaining the code that you found uninteresting. Because all of it will be going in the software. What I've seen is a weird focus on Devex (you don't want to code uninteresting stuff) or HR (no need to hire expensive engineers), but not a peep about the users.