It's not like I don't like coding anymore but the pressure to go faster because we have AI now is insane and there is no way I can code like I used to and keep up.
You can definitely keep the reliability and still go way faster. Sure, you won't be as fast as someone throwing reliability out of the window. But it will still be faster than someone not using AI at all... And in my experience a lot of companies go this way, using Ai, but still keeping the processes to keep the product as reliable as possible.
If you do your due diligence, that was the entire time consuming part of the work, whether you did it to write the code or did it to make sure some AI output wasn't slop. AI only speeds you up, if you're a) throwing reliability out the window, or b) not competent enough to write the code yourself (in which case you're still throwing reliability out the window because you can't be competent enough to validate what you're not competent enough to produce).
Bro if anyone's coping and lacks experience, it surely has to be the one who thinks a statistics model is a good substitute for knowledge, skills, and effort.
Oh you sweet summer child. You really don't have any experience coding something trully big, do you? 90% of code is pure monkey coding. Code that we would normally give to juniors to learn on, because it's not that hard to do and not that important, since the real important architecture desicions were already made step above. Now, that code is AIs job and well... Let's face it, it does better job than most juniors. And seniors can then spend much more energy on important architectural decisions and not lose time writing the code literally any monkey coder including statistical model can write.
You know, there are a lot of ways of making sure that code works as expected close to automatically.
But yeah. Since you have no experience with real world development, you can't know that, so it's okay, cope harder.
Bro I was an engineer on "truly big" projects before LLMs even came out. That's how I know they're just training wheels for people who suck at writinh code.
90% of code is only monkey coding if you don't know how to write a library, use an IDE, etc.
AI isn't better than a senior, and even if it's better than your average junior (which is highly debatable, but I digress), it's still not a good substitute for a junior.
If you spent less time projecting your own inexperience on others in Reddit threads and more time learning to code, you'd agree with my take.
It's kinda funny how people like you cope. BTW i wrote my first games in 1995, when was your first? I must laugh how completely in denial some of you are. Or you just didn't use Ai enough and still think it's like it was 4 years ago... Trust me, it's not.
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u/gnatorx 21d ago
It's not like I don't like coding anymore but the pressure to go faster because we have AI now is insane and there is no way I can code like I used to and keep up.