alt Hacker NewsI can see the logic behind "manual coding" but it feels like driving across country vs taking the airplane. Once I've taken the airplane once, its so hard to go back...
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It's more like driving across country vs firing a missile with you being the warhead...
I only see this being the case for throwaway code and prototypes. For production code you want to keep long term it's not so clear cut.
Can't understand this mentality. If I had the time I would much rather never set foot in an airport again. I would drive everywhere. And I would much rather write my own code than pilot an LLM too
Real life measurements show a 25 percent improvement in coding speed when using AI at best. And this is before you take technical debt into account!
Yes, AI unlocks coding for people who fail FizzBuzz. This isn't really relevant to making software though.
Airplanes are good for certain types of journey, but they're vastly inefficient for almost all of them.