AI tools in their current form or another will definitely change software engineering, I personally think for the best
However I can’t help but notice some things that look weird/amusing:
- The exact time that many programmers were enlightened about the AI capabilities and the frequency of their posts.
- The uniform language they use in these posts. Grandiose adjectives, standard phrases like ‘it seems to me’
- And more importantly the sense of urgency and FOMO they emit. This is particularly weird for two reasons. First is that if the past has shown something regarding technology is that open source always catches up. But this is not the case yet. Second, if the premise is that we re just the in beginning all these ceremonial flows will be obsolete.
Do not get me wrong, as of today these are all valid ways to work with AI and in many domains they increase the productivity. But I really don’t get the sense of urgency.
> The exact time that many programmers were enlightened about the AI capabilities and the frequency of their posts.
I attribute that to the holidays. Many people finally had the time to goof around with these tools. At least that's how it happened to me.
It was an incredible experience. I implemented a few features quickly and in a much better way than I could otherwise. Realized how many tiny holes my app had and a few suboptimal patterns I was using. Made me worry about my career, initially, but after using for a while, I now see it as going up the chain of abstraction. Only thing I'm not doing is writing code by hand. Im still having to do everything else like thinking about architecture and the big picture, keeping it dry and maintainable, debugging, etc - but with a lot of help from LLMs. Sometimes it's 10x and sometimes you wasted sometime, you know, just like how using packages made us go up the chain.
However I can’t help but notice some things that look weird/amusing:
- The exact time that many programmers were enlightened about the AI capabilities and the frequency of their posts.
- The uniform language they use in these posts. Grandiose adjectives, standard phrases like ‘it seems to me’
- And more importantly the sense of urgency and FOMO they emit. This is particularly weird for two reasons. First is that if the past has shown something regarding technology is that open source always catches up. But this is not the case yet. Second, if the premise is that we re just the in beginning all these ceremonial flows will be obsolete.
Do not get me wrong, as of today these are all valid ways to work with AI and in many domains they increase the productivity. But I really don’t get the sense of urgency.