[mark_l_watson]

I think this article is not really correct, but I have been programming since the late 1960s, so my perspective may be different.

There have been many new tools. The simplistic DWIM AI coding assistant on my Lisp Machine seemed like magic 40 years ago and perhaps LLMs seem a little magical now.

However they are just tools to get work done faster. I love coding with assistance from Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT.

[danjl]

Exactly. I didn't start coding until the '80s, but even at that point I was writing a lot of assembly code. I don't do that anymore. Each decade that I've coded I look back and see that I've moved up to higher and higher levels of complexity over the years. I was skeptical of AI coding, and I still am. But I've seen that it is capable of writing single line expressions quite well, and if the function is well scoped enough, it can even write full functions occasionally. My favorite use of AI is as a rubber duck, for me to bounce my ideas off of before I actually write any code. I expect it's capabilities will get better and better over time as everything does. Having The AI code these smaller bits allows me to focus more on gluing the bits together, just like I've done for the last 10 years with all the open source libraries that are available these days. I don't mind that I forgotten how to use the Lisa assembler for my Apple ][. I'm happy to keep forgetting stuff if I keep working on more and more complicated projects.

[mromanuk]

Any tool that improves any work will and shall be used.