[belZaah]

> I believe in coding primarily as a means to an end

Yes. Absolutely. To what end, though? Is your end deterministic like a cryptographic protocol or loose like pagination of a web page? Is your end feature delivery or 30 years of rock solid service delivery at minimal cost?

AI is a dangerous tool. It exposes fundamental questions by automating away the mundane. We have had the luxury of not thinking deep and hard about intent and value creation/capture and system architecture. AI is putting us face to face with our ineptitude: maybe it wasn’t the tech stack or the programmers or the whatnots? Maybe the idea was shait, maybe I had no understanding of the value added of my product? Maybe …?

You get the best gear - musical instrument, bicycle, camera, etc - the pros have and still the results are not great. Gotta ask why. We are experiencing this at literally industrial scale.