Aside from anything else, you have good engineering instincts, and I wish more people in the industry were like you.

Thanks, doing my best. It's one of the reasons I want to get more of my AI-skeptical colleagues onboard with AI development. They're skeptical for good reasons, but right now so much progress is being driven by those who lack skills, taste, or experience. I understand those with lots of experience being skeptical at the claims, I like to think I am too, but I think there's clearly something here, and I want more people who are skeptical to shape the direction and future of these technologies.

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ithkuil 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Being a skeptic doesn't make one an irrational hater (surely such people exist and might be noisy and taint all skeptics as such)

I am learning how to make good use of agent assisted engineering and while I'm positively impressed with many things they can do, I'm definitely skeptical about various aspects of the process:

1. Quality of the results 2. Maintainability 3. Overall saved time

There are still open problems because we're introducing a significant change in the tooling while keeping the rest of the process unchanged (often for good reasons). For example consider the imbalance in the code review cost (some people produce tons of changes and the rest of the team is drowned by the review burden)

This new wave of tooling is undoubtedly going to transform the way that software is developed, but I think jump too quickly to the conclusion that they already figured out how exactly is that going to look like

	▲	p0w3n3d 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd say that the worst thing that can happen to a developer using Claude etc is detachment from the code. At some point of time the code starts to be "not yours", you don't recognise it anymore. You don't have the connection to it. It's like your everyday working in another company...