[getnormality]

Or maybe people who like talking much more than they like code are now very excited about the possibility that talking has eaten software development.

This is exactly backwards. For many tasks, formal languages are better, more real, more beautiful than English. No matter how many millions of tokens you have, you will never talk the formulas of Fermat, Euler, and Gauss into irrelevance. And the same is true of good code.

Of course, a lot of code is ugly and utilitarian too, and maybe talking will make it less painful to write that stuff.

[orphea]

  > Or maybe people who like talking much more than they like code are now very excited about the possibility that talking has eaten software development.

This has been my experience. In my team, the most excited people appear to be those who spend most of their time in meetings.

[muzani]

There was an early era when the AI revolution was led by us Java users who had to deal with boilerplate lol. Plus review 4000 lines of code a day, a lot of it boilerplate as well. This was also the era of "clean code" and we were looking at adapters connected to adapters for no reason besides DRY being a holy rule.

[skydhash]

> a lot of code is ugly and utilitarian too,

And as everyone who can abstract well knows: Ugly code that have staying power have a reason to be ugly. And the best will be annotated with HACK and NOTE comments. Anything else can be refactored and abstracted to a much better form. But that requires a sense of craftsmanship (to know better) and a time allowance for such activity.