The craft can move up a level too. You still can make decisions about the implementation, which algorithms to use, how to combine them, how and what to test -- essentially crafting the system at a higher level. In a similar sense, we lost the hand-crafting of assembly code as compilers took over, and now we're losing the crafting of classes and algorithms to some extent, but we still craft the system -- what and how it does its thing, and most importantly, why.
A handful of well intentioned slop piles might be manageable, but AI enables spewing garbage at an unprecedented scale. When there's a limited amount of resources to expend on discussing, reviewing, fixing, and then finally accepting contributions a ton of AI generated contributions from random people could bring development to a halt.
I can come up with many examples that would take you ages to search in Kagi vs one prompt in ChatGPT.
You really should be updating.
AI is leaps and bounds better than google at searching.
“You don’t need google for this, we have had public libraries for decades” energy.
Dogmatism sometimes seems like a better thing compared to mind so open that wind blows through it without obstacles.
And don’t make me laugh about “good online resources”. SO went downhill and is just a graveyard at this point where everything is frozen in time. It has some good discussions (that LLMs ingested), but that’s it.
You can hate LLMs all you want, but they’re godsend for interactive discussion with the material.