I am in the middle, neither a dogmatic skeptic nor a full-blown prompt engineer, but I lost it when the author compared a junior developer (a human) to a SaaS subscription.
Tells you what you need to know about the AI culture.
Tells you what you need to know about the AI culture.
If you don’t consider the human aspect, a LLM coding agent has a similar use than a junior developer.
Of course, humans have advantages and those advantages have value. But the coding agent costs $20 dollars a month.
Replacing humans my machines that are much cheaper isn’t really something new.