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>>tablet+(OP)
> "For art, music, and writing? I got nothing. I’m inclined to believe the skeptics in those fields."

You've already lost me, because I view programming as an art form. I would no more use AI to generate code than I would use it to paint my canvas.

I think the rest of the article is informative. It made me want to try some things. But it's written from the perspective of a CEO thinking all his developers are just salt miners; miners go into the cave and code comes out.

I think that's actually what my hangup is. It's the old adage of programmers simply "copying and pasting from stack overflow" but taken to the extreme. It's the reduction of my art into mindless labor.

>>TheCra+U3
Woodworking is also an art form. But most people just need furniture, fixtures, and structures. Nobody would take seriously the idea that new construction all be done with sashimono joinery in order to preserve the art form, but somehow we're meant to take seriously the idea of hand-dovetailed CRUD apps.

>>tptace+o4
I'm not sure why you're equivocating "all code" with "CRUD apps". If that were the case I'd be with you. But it isn't. Glue code between APIs is indeed pointless garbage that can be automated, but that's not what I, nor many other engineers, are writing day-to-day.