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by sminchev 39 days ago
Sometimes, I get bored. Writing code was so much fun. Trying to figure out, how to resolve the issue, and they feel the excitement, the joy when the task is done. This is now gone. I case of issue, ask the AI, tell the AI to write it. Where IS the JOY?! Some people find the joy in making the product that they were not being able to do, because of lack of the needed skills, and this is not bad. :) But for me, with my 20 years experience as back-end Java developer, I sometimes feel this big gap.

AI can produce garbage, it can produce excellent results. As long as you know what you are doing, and provide perfect specification, it can come with results, that you alone can't think of, or they can take a lot of time for 'manual' research and implementation. Some people still find issues, and don't trust, but the topic is big here: what's the model, how good is the specification, what's the used process/workflow, what are the agents, what's the technical background of the person leading the agents. Not that easy to say: AI does not work, why people want to use it after all, when it produces garbage

Life changes, customer demand it. We have no choice, and we need to adapt. Of course, there will be places that code will still be written manually. Banking, military, and other highly confidential areas have no other way to do it.

How did people feel in the beginning of the industry revolution? Have they felt the same way back then ?