nice article. Throughout all of the cited studies above (I've heard of them all but havent read them as you did), what i've thought all along that I never see discussed is: "how did developers FEEL while creating the code?"
My own opinion is even if AI/no AI speed was the same (doubt it) and if quality was even slightly lower with AI, that would still make going all-in on AI worth it to me because of the psychological burden that's removed from the developers.
I was writing code the old fashioned way for like 20 yrs before AI came on the scene, and the old fashioned way just is not it for your psychological health. The worst part of the job has been removed and it's almost an acceptable job now. I never see raw benchmarks addressing that.
Yeah, I imagine, like with a lot of things, it would depend on how you feel about the process and what parts you LIKE. There is something satisfying about personally debugging code, finding a novel approach to something… whatever. I’ve done it (been a while though haha)… and the “fuck… this actually works the way I wanted” moments are GREAT, but generally these days I’d rather plan and iterate without doing the line-by-line typing because it fits better with how my brain works. I could absolutely see others having a different view on that, and that’s totally fine.
“I prefer X because of personal reasons and workflow” is WAY different from “X is bad because of VAGUE, NONSENSICAL STAT” though, and that’s pretty much the logic I’m seeing, on both side of the debate….or… discourse… or whatever you wanna call this… and THAT is weird to me.
nice article. Throughout all of the cited studies above (I've heard of them all but havent read them as you did), what i've thought all along that I never see discussed is: "how did developers FEEL while creating the code?"
My own opinion is even if AI/no AI speed was the same (doubt it) and if quality was even slightly lower with AI, that would still make going all-in on AI worth it to me because of the psychological burden that's removed from the developers.
I was writing code the old fashioned way for like 20 yrs before AI came on the scene, and the old fashioned way just is not it for your psychological health. The worst part of the job has been removed and it's almost an acceptable job now. I never see raw benchmarks addressing that.
Yeah, I imagine, like with a lot of things, it would depend on how you feel about the process and what parts you LIKE. There is something satisfying about personally debugging code, finding a novel approach to something… whatever. I’ve done it (been a while though haha)… and the “fuck… this actually works the way I wanted” moments are GREAT, but generally these days I’d rather plan and iterate without doing the line-by-line typing because it fits better with how my brain works. I could absolutely see others having a different view on that, and that’s totally fine.
“I prefer X because of personal reasons and workflow” is WAY different from “X is bad because of VAGUE, NONSENSICAL STAT” though, and that’s pretty much the logic I’m seeing, on both side of the debate….or… discourse… or whatever you wanna call this… and THAT is weird to me.
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