[codechicago277]

This is true. Just like a crappy consultant, AI lets you offload the repetitive, monotonous work so that you can focus your time on the big architectural problems. Of course you can write a better function if you spend a lot of time on it, but there’s magic in just letting the AI write the off the shelf version and move on.

[skydhash]

Where are these repetitive, monotonous work so I can se send a job application there.

Even on a greenfield project, I rarely spend more than a day setting up the scaffolding and that’s for something I’ve not touched before. And for refactoring and tests, this is where Vim/Emacs comes in.

[cess11]

Many people doing code for money never or only rarely used any form of code generation until it was given to them as a SaaS in exchange for copies of the code they work on.

I've been surprised by this for a long time, having seen coworkers spend days typing in things manually that they could have put there with IDE capabilities, search-replace, find -exec or a five minute script.

[echelon]

> And for refactoring and tests, this is where Vim/Emacs comes in.

I've used Vim bindings and strongly typed languages with IDEs that have strong AST-based refactoring my entire career.

Nothing comes close to changing one condition of a test and having the AI autocomplete magically suggest the correct series of ten updates that fix the test. In under the blink of an eye, too.

Everything is truly changing in big ways.

[skydhash]

> Nothing comes close to changing one condition of a test and having the AI autocomplete magically suggest the correct series of ten updates that fix the test. In under the blink of an eye, too.

But why are you doing this? Granted, you may have a longer career than I do, but I never once think: The test condition is wrong, let's update it. Oh, I wish I could update the code alongside it!.