Comment by adamddev1
3 days ago
> I’ve watched this industry absorb higher-level languages, IDEs, autocomplete, agile and devops, and there were always crusty hold-outs reminiscing about the good old days before X came along and ruined everything.
But all of those things were consciously built, deterministic and transparent tools. LLMs/AI are something fundamentally different.
yes it does seem fundamentally different. Most claims about AI are unmeasured marketing and favoritism. Similar to how management wants you to use eclipse or codeblocks to a developer that uses Emacs skillfully because it is shiny and new and they don't understand the requirements of the developer.