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As a dev, I have the same experience.

AI chat is a massive productivity enhancer, but, when coding via prompts, I'm not able to hit the super satisfying developer flow state that I get into via normal coding.

Copilot is less of a productivity boost, but also less of a flow state blocker.

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Yep! I think these tools are incredibly useful, but I think they're basically changing all our jobs to be more like what product managers do, having ideas for what we want to achieve, but farming out a significant chunk of the work rather than doing it ourselves. And that's fine, I find it very hard to argue that it's a bad thing. But there's a reason that we aren't all product managers already. Programming is fun, and I do experience it as a loss to find myself doing less of it myself.

There is some queasy feeling of fake-ness when auto-completing so much code. It feels like you're doing something wrong. But these are all based on my experience coding for half my life. AI-native devs will probably feel differently.

Maybe they should build in a test/reward system somehow to make it more appealing to use by humans. Gamification is the corporate buzzword I think

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