You’d have to be pretty unbelievably stellar to produce code 200x better than Opus. I can get a lot of business value out of not-great $20/mo coding. The people writing our checks do not care about the same things we care about.

And I say this as someone who is very upset about what this stuff is doing to my career and hobby.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

Why is it ridiculous? If you have electronic access to something of value and broadcast that fact on the internet, you’re at risk of a physical attack. That’s not controversial? Companies make employees do training about this for a reason.

I don’t get paid to write code, and you probably don’t either.

Because that’s not how it works. How can we have a discussion about this topic if we don’t have a mutual understanding of how the tools even work?

The code is not replaced by English prompts. The code still exists.

If my ability to write code somehow atrophies because I stop doing it, does that matter if I continue with the architecture and strategy around coding?

The act of writing code by hand seems to be on a trajectory of irrelevance, so as long as I maintain my ability to reason about code (both by continuing to read it and instruct tools to write it), what’s the issue?

Edit to add: the vast majority of the code I’ve worked on in my career was not written by me. A significant portion of it was not written by someone still employed by my employer. I think that’s true for a lot of us, and we all made it work. And we made it work without modern coding assistants helping out. I think we’ll be fine.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/aws-codecommit-returns-t...

The best part is they always immediately start badly explaining it to us like we’ve never heard of it either.

Between that and having concerns repeatedly dismissed before we secured a diagnosis has sincerely changed my view of Dr. Google.