[krupan]

If I have to go to this much effort, what is AI buying us here? Why don't we just put the effort in to learn to write code ourselves? Instead of troubleshooting AI problems and coming up with clever workarounds for those problems, troubleshoot your code, solve those problems directly!

[harper]

the speed is way faster. I am a good programmer with more than 25 years of professional experience. The AI is a better programmer in every way. Why do it myself when i can outsource it and play cookie clicker?

The real thing that sold me is the entire workflow takes 10 minutes to plan, and then 10-15 minutes to execute (let's say a python script of medium complexity). after a solid ~20-30 min I am largely done. no debugging necessary.

it would have taken me an hour or two to do the same script.

this means i can spend a lot more time with the fam, hacking on more things, and messing about.

[triyambakam]

Speed. The abstraction layer has moved up. You probably aren't writing machine code anymore.