I suspect it’s not a smarter developer thing, but a stupider code thing.
Programming for a client is making their processes easier, ideally as few clicks as possible. Programming for a programmer does the same to programming.
The thing with our “industry” is that it doesn’t automate programming at all, so smart people “build” random bs all day that should have been made a part of some generic library decades ago and made available off the shelf by all decent runtimes.
Making a form with validation and data objects and a backend with orm/sql connection and migrations and auth and etc etc. It all was solved millions of times and no one bats an eye why tf they reimplement multiple klocs of it over and over again.
That’s where AI shines. It builds you this damn stupid form that takes two days of work otherwise.
Very nice.
But it’s not programming. If anything, it’s a shame. A spit into the face of programming that somehow got normalized by… not sure whom. We take a bare, raw runtime like node/python/go and a browser and call it “a platform”. What platform? It’s as platform as INT 13h is an RDBMS.
I think AI usefulness division clearly shows us that right now, but most are blind to it by inertia.
wruza|1 year ago
Programming for a client is making their processes easier, ideally as few clicks as possible. Programming for a programmer does the same to programming.
The thing with our “industry” is that it doesn’t automate programming at all, so smart people “build” random bs all day that should have been made a part of some generic library decades ago and made available off the shelf by all decent runtimes.
Making a form with validation and data objects and a backend with orm/sql connection and migrations and auth and etc etc. It all was solved millions of times and no one bats an eye why tf they reimplement multiple klocs of it over and over again.
That’s where AI shines. It builds you this damn stupid form that takes two days of work otherwise.
Very nice.
But it’s not programming. If anything, it’s a shame. A spit into the face of programming that somehow got normalized by… not sure whom. We take a bare, raw runtime like node/python/go and a browser and call it “a platform”. What platform? It’s as platform as INT 13h is an RDBMS.
I think AI usefulness division clearly shows us that right now, but most are blind to it by inertia.