[lunarcave]

The things that's most often missed in these discussions that "writing code" is the end artefact. It doesn't take into account the endless tradeoffs made in producing the said artefact - the journey to get there.

Just try implementing a feature with a junior, in a mildly complex codebase and you'd catch all the unconscious tradeoffs that you're making as an experienced developer. AI has some concept of what these tradeoffs are, but that's mostly by observation.

AI _does_ help with writing code. Keyword there being - "help".

But thinking is the human's job. LLMs can't/don't "think". Thinking how to get the AI to produce the output you want is also your job. You'd think less and less if models get better.

[bulhi]

Exactly. I think the key point from the article is: "When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."