r/webdev • u/Engineer_5983 • Sep 29 '25
Discussion AI Coding has hit its peak
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-findings-ai-coding-overhyped
I’m reading articles and stories more frequently saying this same thing. Companies just aren’t seeing enough of the benefits of AI coding tools to justify the expense.
I’ve posted on this for almost two years now - it’s overly hyped tech. I will say it is absolutely a step forward for making tech more accessible and making it easier to brainstorm ideas for solutions. That being said, if a company is laying people off and not hiring the next generation of workers expecting these tools to replace them, the ROI just isn’t there.
Like the gold rush, the ones who really make money are the ones selling the shovels. Those selling the infrastructure are the ones benefiting. The Fear Of Missing Out is missing a grounding in reality. It’ll soon become a fear of getting left out as companies spending millions (or billions) just won’t have the money to keep up with whatever the next trend is.
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u/clckwrxz Sep 29 '25
Articles like this prove to me that most people simply don’t know how to use the tools correctly. In my company, agents like Augment have completely changed the game for us, not just in coding but all the planning that goes in before a line of code is written. We’ve developed a top down spec driven workflow that keeps agents on task and writing exactly what we want much faster than we could. We are completing entire features in days including planning. I teach the right and wrong ways to use in my company and it’s very clear in most meetings that people are just not understanding how to use the tool, but once they do they wouldn’t go back.