The real slowdown comes after when you realize you don’t understand your own codebase because you relied too much on AI. To understand it well enough requires discipline, which in the current IT world is lacking anyway. Either you can rely entirely on AI or you need to monitor its every action, in which case you may be better off writing yourself. But this hybrid approach I don’t think will pan out particularly well.
Yeah, it’s interesting how strangely development is presented, like programming is only about writing code. They still do that when they tout ai coding capabilities.
I’m not against ai, it’s amazing how quickly you can build something. But something small and limited one person can build.
The whole human experience is missing, laziness, boredom, communication and issues with communication,… to actually build a good product that’s more than a simple app.
I think we’ll find a reasonable way to do things cause all of those problems also happen to any CTO of a growing tech team. And some of them have methods to make it work, that are neither letting the team run wild, nor inspecting every line of code they commit.
Definitely. Or possibly AI will become vastly superior to developers and will require no supervision. In that case, the whole paradigm changes and I don’t know how the software development will look like then. But these are definitely still early days of AI software development, we have a lot to figure out.
Any new tool or technique will slow ANYONE down until you familiarize yourself and get used to it.
This article mind was say the sky is blue and grass is green, it isn’t news and it’s quite obvious it will take a few uses to get decent with it. Like any other new tool, software, etc.
This is true. However, the issue is we keep oscillating between AI is useless and over hyped; and it will solve all of life’s problems and you should not call it slop out of respect. The truth is somewhere in between, but we need to fight for it to find it.
The real slowdown comes after when you realize you don’t understand your own codebase because you relied too much on AI. To understand it well enough requires discipline, which in the current IT world is lacking anyway. Either you can rely entirely on AI or you need to monitor its every action, in which case you may be better off writing yourself. But this hybrid approach I don’t think will pan out particularly well.
Yeah, it’s interesting how strangely development is presented, like programming is only about writing code. They still do that when they tout ai coding capabilities.
I’m not against ai, it’s amazing how quickly you can build something. But something small and limited one person can build. The whole human experience is missing, laziness, boredom, communication and issues with communication,… to actually build a good product that’s more than a simple app.
I think we’ll find a reasonable way to do things cause all of those problems also happen to any CTO of a growing tech team. And some of them have methods to make it work, that are neither letting the team run wild, nor inspecting every line of code they commit.
Definitely. Or possibly AI will become vastly superior to developers and will require no supervision. In that case, the whole paradigm changes and I don’t know how the software development will look like then. But these are definitely still early days of AI software development, we have a lot to figure out.
Any new tool or technique will slow ANYONE down until you familiarize yourself and get used to it.
This article mind was say the sky is blue and grass is green, it isn’t news and it’s quite obvious it will take a few uses to get decent with it. Like any other new tool, software, etc.
This is true. However, the issue is we keep oscillating between AI is useless and over hyped; and it will solve all of life’s problems and you should not call it slop out of respect. The truth is somewhere in between, but we need to fight for it to find it.
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The article clearly mentioned they weren’t experienced with AI, that’s the new tool.
Not true - here’s an excerpt from the article: