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by fireant 38 days ago
With AI dependence, unless you are a holdout, offline development isn't really a thing anymore. Perhaps to do some code reviews, but actually producing new code?
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That is sad.
Somewhat, it's a tradeoff we are making willingly
I haven't made that tradeoff. I still code myself without agents from time to time.
Nothing changed. You can still code the old way. All those 100x productivity gains are probably closer to 10% productivity gains after you account for all the added debugging and steering.