| AI <> Transformers I keep seeing this over and over by so called "engineers". You can dismiss the current crop of transformers without dismissing the wider AI category. To me this is like saying that users "dismiss Computers" because they dismiss Windows and instead prefer Linux. Rejecting modern practices for not getting on the microservice hype train or not using React. Intellisense pre-GPT is a good example of AI that wasn't using transformers. And of course, you can have both criticise some usages of transformers in IDEs and editors while appreciating and using others. "My coworker uses Claude Code now. She finished a project last week that would’ve taken me a month". This is one of those generalisations. There is no nuance here. The range of usage from boilerplate to vibe code level is vast. Quickly churning out code is not a virtue. It is not impressive to ship something only to find critical bugs on the first day. Nor is it a virtue using it at the cost of losing understanding of the codebase. This rigid thinking by devs needs to stop imo. For so called rational thinkers, the development world is rife with dogma and simplistic binary thinking. If using transformers at any level is cost-effective for all, the data will speak for itself. Vague statements and broad generalisations are not going to sway anyone and will just make this kind of articles sound like validation seeking behaviour. |