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slotranstoday at 12:04 AM2 repliesview on HN

The AI code takeover will not free engineers up to do craftsmanship. It will annihilate the last vestiges of craftsmanship forever.


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0xbadcafebeetoday at 1:30 AM

New technology does not eliminate old technology or craftsmanship. It just shifts who uses it and what for.

- Power tools didn't annihilate the craftsmanship of hand-tool woodworking. Fine woodworkers are still around and making money using hand tools, as well as hobbyists. But contractors universally switched to power tools because they help them make more money with less labor/cost/time.

- A friend of mine still knits on a loom because she likes using a loom. Some people knit by hand because they like that better. Neither of them stopped just because of large automated looms.

- Blacksmiths still exist and make amazing metal crafts. That doesn't mean there isn't a huge market for machine cast or forged metal parts.

In the future there'll just be the "IDE people" and the "Agent Prompt people", both plugging away at whatever they do.

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Cthulhu_today at 12:21 PM

That's a very doomer statement, with the false premise that craftsmanship is already on its last vestiges. It's not that bad.