Using it is like elevating yourself to a management position over a sea of stochastic code monkeys. It constantly churns out rubbish of tenuous usefulness toward solving the problem you actually have and then codes up a test suite to encase that ill-advised screed in a thick layer of cement.
Yes, you’re “shipping” more code. But code – like Cory Doctorow is fond of saying – is a liability. “AI” can keep churning shit out and if your standards are low enough you can ship the slop. But the hardest problem in software is finding the right two line fix to place to fix the actual problem, and it’s something made infinitely worse by having a tool that churns out things that look like they might be correct, turning you into the trash sorter.
Using it is like elevating yourself to a management position over a sea of stochastic code monkeys. It constantly churns out rubbish of tenuous usefulness toward solving the problem you actually have and then codes up a test suite to encase that ill-advised screed in a thick layer of cement.
Yes, you’re “shipping” more code. But code – like Cory Doctorow is fond of saying – is a liability. “AI” can keep churning shit out and if your standards are low enough you can ship the slop. But the hardest problem in software is finding the right two line fix to place to fix the actual problem, and it’s something made infinitely worse by having a tool that churns out things that look like they might be correct, turning you into the trash sorter.