[0xbadcafebee]

A car saves you time in getting to and from the store. But if you don't learn to drive, and just hop in the car and press things, you're going to crash, and that definitely won't save you time. Cars are also more expensive than walking or a bike, yet people still buy them.

[throwatdem12311]

I already know how to drive stick (trad coding), I don’t feel like I’m gaining much by switching to automatic transmission.

[0xbadcafebee]

Yeah that's not the difference, lol. With AI coding you can get the same work done in an order of magnitude less time, without even knowing how to program.

The only comparison I can come up with is 3D printers, but even that's not as ridiculously fast and easy as AI coding. An average person can ask an agent to write a program, in any popular language, and it'll do it, and it'll work. We still need people intelligent enough to steer the agent, but you do not need to edit a single line of code anymore.

[skydhash]

Most people that don't know how to program have no real desire in coding with AI (unless to pose as a SWE and get that sweet money). Most of them don't even like computers. Yes they do some tasks on it, but they're not that attached to the tool and its capabilities.