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by IshKebab 17 days ago
He's obviously wrong for saying "If you use AI to generate code you're wasting your time" - that's empirically wrong. As you say, anyone who has used recent models knows you can absolutely save time with them (hell even the earlier ones were useful for one-off scripts). But...

> It is nearly inconceivable to me that I would ever go back to writing code by hand, in any context.

In any context? Sorry but they aren't that good yet. There are definitely areas where they are going to struggle. Maybe fewer than before. Maybe you can say "in any context where a junior-to-mid programmer would be ok", which I would agree with.