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[–] 4 points 3 months ago

I think you're right in general. I think juniors and those who havent yet had experience are not going to understand a goddamn thing and produce broken, insecure, unmaintainable slop.

I've written my share of garbage code -- completely by hand! And i'm much better for it.

Once you have that experience, once you've written a few backends and frontends, there's not much left to understand. Move the data from here to there. Display it, transform it, slice it up. For webdev AI is a huge force multiplier. I can make a dozen features or apps in the time it used to take me to learn one framework I was curious about. It even helps me learn faster because of how quickly I can test new patterns and ideas.

There's certainly a right way to use it if you want to continue being edified, burning the planet down aside.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    burning the planet down aside

    If we only used AI for codegen, this probably wouldn’t be much of an issue. Those cat videos take more energy than building a complete app. Also, it’s all pretty new and the newest tech 40 years ago would have filled a warehouse and had the computational power of a potato, but here we are now. I expect we’ll get more efficient at it and in the ways we use it. And there’s already a huge worldwide shift in energy capture (America aside…)

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