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You can make a chair using nothing but hand tools. That’s a wonderfully hobby, but you’re going to have a real hard time turning that into a business and putting food on the table. The hand-made chair is probably of even be better quality than the mass produced one. And that’s great for a few people, but most people probably want the cheapest chair that just barely gets the job done of staying together.
most people probably want the cheapest chair that just barely gets the job done of staying together.
I want the better quality chair. I curse my sagging Walmart bookcases. I can only afford the shitty furniture, because I am underpaid. The business wants to make the shittiest, cheapest chair they can that barely holds together through a return period. Greed, capitalism, and the profit motive continue to be the great evils facing our society.
AI can build that shitty chair, but it’s going to collapse. But, that’s a problem for next quarter.
Coding is not making chairs. If the saw gouges the template you usually see the error quickly. If the legs are on crooked you can tell just by looking. If it breaks when you sit on it, you generally just fall on your ass. Manufacturing chairs is a simple process. Using chairs is a (typically) safe process.
Coding is abstract, complex, deals with sensitive information, can broadcast that information anywhere on the planet to anyone instantly, intentionally or accidentally, and can even land you in jail if it performs certain actions.
And you want to trust a non-deterministic autocorrect to fill in the “boring” gaps in your engineering when you can’t even be certain it will give you the right solution? Let alone a quality one…
The stark contradiction that flows from supposedly smart people as soon as they get an idea that they’ll be like Mickey Mouse in Fantasia except with computers just illustrates to me that humanity’s thirst for power and control knows no bounds. Your hubris will be our undoing.
I wish I could leave it here, but this isn’t reason enough for a lot of people.
Huh? You can do whatever you want. If you like writing code go ahead? There is no need to defend yourself. Who cares what some idiot does (not) accept? You can not change their mind anyway.
I fully agree with the sentiment behind your point. But I think you may have missed their intent.
I would refer you to just one paragraph earlier, where they state:
I also fucking enjoy writing. I enjoy editing my writing…
By their own admission, they are doing this for fun.
To add to that, the quote you used goes on to jokingly say:
…(so) I guess I’ll provide some logical arguments or something, whatever.
Seems to me like they weren’t trying to defend themselves. Rather they were trying to emphasize how strongly they disdain letting AI take the fun out of coding by way of sarcasm.
Amazing to watch all these devs announce they are leaving the industry.
