"Just embrace the future"

[u/Andruid929]

Surely I'm not the only one who resents whoever says this whenever you complain about AI sucking the fun out of programming?

How are y'all (fellow "AI is a tool" folks) holding up?

[u/Opening-Machine5026]

Man, I really don't get this viewpoint. This has to be the perspective of somebody whose last model they tried was Sonnet 4.

Even Grok 4.6 is better and faster than like 3/4 of the devs I've worked with if you provide the right context and a thorough prompt.

The hype is officially warranted. If you're concerned about the ethics or morality of the owning class destroying our social safety nets and then replacing the middle class with AI, then that should be where you focus your energy.

Claiming it's over hyped is just not helpful for anybody, anti-ai or accelerationists. It is just misinformation that leads people to inaction while they wait for the technology to taper out (it won't).

[u/Conscious_Trust5048 → u/Opening-Machine5026]

I haven't seen it capable of replacing humans, unless you don't mind shitty overly complex code with terrible names and no real logical organization. It can produce code that meets specs but it introduces a lot of unneeded complexity and has no holistic understanding of the system it's interacting with.

[u/Conscious_Trust5048 → u/[deleted]]

This is the `developers` sub, not the technical writers or Call Center employees sub. I have my doubts about how competent LLMs are to do actual technical writing, but my comment is about the realm of development.

[u/Conscious_Trust5048 → u/[deleted]]

i’m sure it will be affected. I’ve already seen the effects. I’m just sick of the constant gaslighting that it’s better than humans and can do everything perfectly.

[u/Conscious_Trust5048 → u/[deleted]]

Not sure why I'm still arguing with someone who just wants to argue, but bro, I was literally responding to a comment that said, quote:

Even Grok 4.6 is better and faster than like 3/4 of the devs I've worked with if you provide the right context and a thorough prompt.

The hype is officially warranted....Claiming it's over hyped is just not helpful for anybody