alt Hacker NewsExcept the dev that gets AI done in 5 hours will have a poorer mental model of the code. Whether that's important might or might not depend on whether that bites you in the ass at some point.
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gjsman-1000 • today at 1:01 PM
But does it matter?
If you write a program in Python or JavaScript, you have a terrible mental model for how that code is actually executed in machine code. It's irrelevant though, you figure it out only when it's a problem.
Even if you don't have a great mental model, now you have AI to identify the problems and generate an explanation of the structure for you.
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Don’t really agree with this.
That dev is productive with AI precisely _because_ they have a good mental model.
AI like other tools is a multiplier - it doesn’t make bad devs good, but it makes good devs significantly more productive.