[rsynnott]

I mean, surely, if and when they demonstrably work, the sceptic can just adopt them, having lost nothing? There seems to be a new one every month anyway, so it’s not like experience from using the one from three years ago is going to be particularly helpful.

There seems to be an attitude, or at least a pretended attitude, amongst the true believers that the heretics are dooming themselves, left behind in a glorious AI future. But the AI coding tools du jour are completely different from the ones a year ago! And in six months they'll be different again!