The AI pilled view is coding is knitting and AI is an automated loom.

But it is not quite the case. The hand coded solution may be quicker than AI at reaching the business goal.

If there is an elegant crafted solution that stays in prod 10 years and just works it is better than an initially quicker AI coded solution that needs more maintenance and demands a team to maintain it.

If AI (and especially bad operators of AI) codes you a city tower when you need a shed, the tower works and looks great but now you have 500k/y in maintaining it.

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james_marks an hour ago | parent [-]

Doesn’t the loom metaphor still hold? A badly operated loom will create bad fabric the same way badly used AI will make unsafe, unscalable programs.

Anything that can be automated can be automated poorly, but we accept that trained operators can use looms effectively.

	▲	tokenless an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The difference is the loom is performing linear work. Programming is famously non-linear. Small teams making billion dollar companies due to tech choices that avoid needing to scale up people. Yes you need marketing, strategy, investment, sales etc. But on the engineering side, good choices mean big savings and scalability with few people. The loom doesn't have these choises. There is no make a billion tshirts a day for a well configured loom. Now AI might end up either side of this. It may be too sloppy to compete with very smart engineers, or it may become so good that like chess no one can beat it. At that point let it do everything and run the company.
	▲	sixtyj an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Loom is a good metaphor.