I am developing my own app 2+ years manually, and not use "AI" at all.
Using AI usually can cause many problems, which the author pointed at.
Programming should be enjoyable, not an annoyed or unhappy thing.
“Age of AI” but most people actively dislike it and hasn’t had a clearly positive impact on the economy after ~4 years.
You choosing to do something in one specific manner is more the exception that proves the rule then any rebuttal.
Current AI companies stole much data from Internet without permissions, and used the knowledge of many people directly shamelessly.
It cannot resolve many practical problems well, even in programming area.
Do you want the software-assistant to do the important or enjoyable things instead of you? Do you want your assistant in real life to eat the delicious food instead of you?
So? It's not illegal and no one seem to be in any hurry to make it. That is a moral dilemma that everyone just agreed to ignore not anything to do with how functional it is.
> It cannot resolve many practical problems well, even in programming area.
It can solve enough and is getting better every month. I live in SF and I take a self driving Waymo at-least once a week including on the highway. I'm already literally trusting my life to AI at this point.
> Do you want the software-assistant to do the important or enjoyable things instead of you? Do you want your assistant in real life to eat the delicious food instead of you?
I work for a living man so yes I want the damn computer to do 99% of my job. When I program for enjoyment I'll do it however I want in my own free time. At work almost nothing is novel enough to actually matter (nor should it be) so I don't care about implemented something that's been built 100x before me.
How does this mean this isn't an age of AI? Because you're The Representative of Programmers?
> so many not-real-programmers
Oh sorry I missed this part. It seems that you really are!
If a real programmer does use "AI" usually, or use AI to solve all problems about programming, and AI does the all programming tasks, after 1 or 2 years, do you think his/her skills of programming are improving or declining? He/She will lose big part of programming skills very probability. Do you think he/she is a real-programmer then?
The force cannot beat the reality or truth.