As a part-time software developer, one of the problems I think is the following: AI/LLM coding may actually be improving some software, true. But I think it's often in domains where we've already made a lot of progress, and AI helps put the finishing organizing touches on things.... but when it comes to new ideas or new software, I think AI is making things worse.

For instance: an AI-assisted developer can probably make a pretty decent basic text editor, but let's say they need to make an entirely new type of app, then I think the new app will lack polish or finesse because no one has made that before. Or AI can help find bugs in mature, well-written code but what if someone needs to write a new kind of app? Then there's a lack of polish again...

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senfiaj an hour ago | parent [-]

I guess the tendency is the problems shifting to higher levels, while for lower level or common problems things are getting more robust and better.

	▲	bemtevi an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think that makes sense. The question is, is that a good thing? I sometimes wonder if contact with sufficiently 'lower levels' actually supports mental health in a way. Maybe not coding in 1's and 0's, maybe not even assembly, but maybe there is an optimal distance from the bare metal and we're moving farther away from that optimal...