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I think it is a mistake to code with AI. You are moving your brain to an external company (paid one) generating a enormous dependency.Now, you are an useless professional who depends on chatx,claudex, etc. Programming is much more that just generating code, takes years to be proficient. What is going to happen when a new generation of software engineers do not know real programming...?

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Hard disagree on the “useless professional” part. I can still write code without ChatGPT or Codex. That’s not even an issue. Becoming proficient used to take years if you did it the right way; with AI, you can get into pretty good shape much faster.

But define “proficient” here. What does that really mean in this context? A junior engineer, sure, you can tell they’re fucked for now, but for how long does that matter if the models keep getting better?

The models use actual programmers to improve themselves. when no good programmers will be available the IA will just eat their own generated code in a endless loop. People do not understand that what the models "know" is from humans. They basically rip code from github (and other repositories) from real programmers to "improve". If everybody do not program anymore (manually) and no more good/excellent programmers raise, then we are basically doomed in this regard. I myself like to think in terms of slow progression; to generate code you must first know programming, good programming, (typing is something anyone can do). Lastly, I think good professionals are going to be extremely valuable because they will know what is beneath all those layers of IA

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