[big-chungus4]

I am not sure what the loss is. Not everyone is using AI. No one is forcing you to use AI.

[cml123]

my employer has told me that it's an expectation for me and that if I don't use it i'll be replaced

[aleph_minus_one]

> my employer has told me that it's an expectation for me and that if I don't use it i'll be replaced

This does not imply that you cannot use the AI "badly". Call it "malicious compliance" if you want ... :-)

[warkdarrior]

Ah, but we are now in deeply puritanical territory. There is a haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be enjoying the use of AI to create code.

[praptak]

The post doesn't mention AI, it's not about AI and it's not even about implications of applying AI to software development.

AI happens to work in the same direction as the one the author is worried about but none of their theses would be much different without AI.

[big-chungus4]

I think it's pretty clear that it is about AI - author mentions transformation that's been "about three years". What do you think "pulling a damn slot machine lever a couple times to generate the boilerplate" means? What does "coal-fired GPUs to capture society’s output and sell it back to us" refer to?