[Wissenschafter]

"I refuse to pick up the magic hammer that nails things in by me just thinking about it while holding it in my hand; nosiree, give me that old fashioned hammer so I can sit here and nail some nails into a 2x4 while the guy using the other tool is building whole slop neighborhoods. Ha, that guy is so dumb and I'm too cool because I won't ever use that hammer."

I don't get it. Proudly saying you don't plan to use better tools is not some 'cool' look or the brag you think it is. You're just making yourself less valuable and being ignorant on purpose.

Cool.

[austin-cheney]

Yes. You don’t get it. I am not seeking your affirmation. There is no vanity in this for me. I am not bragging to you or anyone else.

[Wissenschafter]

Yeah, I'm sure I'm the one who doesn't get it, not the guy refusing to use the paradigm changing tools, "because".

You sound like my Grandmother who refused to even look at a computer screen. Literally the same. It's amazing it's coming from so called tech-literate people in the field.

Sad.

[austin-cheney]

I have heard this same logic numerous times through my career and its a bias void of evidence, a loud indication of low confidence.

People would lose their minds when they discovered I did not pray at the cult of jQuery and then later React and so forth. I didn't need them. I was more productive without them and still managed to produce applications that executed dramatically faster with substantially less code. AI tools fall into this same camp. What could they provide me that I cannot do better myself at this point in my career? That is a serious question, by the way.

AI tools might work well for you. I am not you. Affirming your bias with baseless assumptions void of evidence will not make you a better programmer. Real developers write their own original code and/or architecture plans. Real engineers measure things and live or die by those measurements.

AI is just another tool. It is not a skill and will not compensate for skills. Perhaps I will use AT later to write test automation because that is something that is very simple to validate and likewise something I really don't want to bother with.

[Wissenschafter]

"Real developers write their own original code and/or architecture plans."

Nice tired no true Scotsman argument. You literally sound like a stubborn boomer refusing to see the change. You sound ignorant, not wise.

I've created several multi-modal AI applications deployed in production; fully created through Codex and Claude code. SOC2 compliant and created in a month, not years.

You can be an old man, but you don't need to have an old man mentality.

You wouldn't hire someone who only knows how to use a typewriter in a world of computers. No big deal, right? "A computer is just 'another tool', why should I not be fine with my typewriter?"

Literally fucking blows my mind I'm even having this discussion on this website, with people who should know better.

Good luck, you will need it.

[austin-cheney]

I am already in management. I will be just fine.

[Wissenschafter]

That explains why you know nothing. Good luck to whoever you manage, I do not envy them.

Would suck to have someone be your manager who refuses to even understand the new tools, much less use them; you will make a GREAT manager.

I'm honestly in disbelief that people in the field can be this purposefully ignorant, and proudly at that.