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I agree completely with your sentiment. The word I use to describe it is “quality”! Most people don’t produce quality work or take pride in it, even beyond the tech industry. I believe the tool of AI is exasperating an underlying problem

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I posted a comment very similar in spirit - we’ve adopted “perfect is the enemy of good” as the operative maxim instead of maximizing accountability and now we may need to flip as AI does that first part quickly enough.

I find LLMs make me doubt my own ability to produce quality now. I used to jump in and just write code so eagerly, letting it get messy but discovering the shape of the problem in the process.

But AI can produce beautiful, complete, syntactically perfect code on the first pass that makes my code look juvenile.

I mean, it might be wrong for other reasons, but it makes me feel like I'm programming with crayons next to it.

I find that I have this problem too. I hate to admit it, but I feel as though it’s the natural progression of the “tab pause” problem, where after writing a stem you wait to see what the autocomplete will say, even though you know exactly what you want to type. It’s like even using AI for confirmation rewires how you think anyway.

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