[bitwize]

AI is training wheels for programming. Hint: Training wheels are actually counterproductive for learning the dynamic balance skills it takes to ride a bike.

New programmers should learn the relevant skills on their own: choosing the appropriate relevant abstractions, writing the code, testing, debugging. Maybe someday AI will be able to help talk them through the concepts and process, but I wouldn't trust today's LLMs without CLOSE human oversight. They're still just drawing refrigerator poetry out of a magic, statistically weighted bag of holding.

If you're mid-level or senior and you think "mash button, get slop" will help streamline your workflow in some mission noncritical way, go for it. Slop is convenient, and can free up time to focus on what you think is more important -- Hackernews was all in on Soylent because being able to keep your flesh mech topped up with nutrients without having to prepare food really appeals to the SV grindset crowd -- but slop shouldn't be taking on production workloads, again not without human oversight, which would require equivalent effort to just letting the humans write the damn thing themselves.