With AI, I am a 10X developer now. At minimum. I use it for my C# and JavaScript day job. Copilot in VS.
I work on a code base that is easily over 1 million lines. It has had dozens of developers work on it over the last 15 to 20 years. Trying to follow the convention for the portion of the code base that I work on alone is a pain. I’ve been working on it for about seven years and I still had to ask questions.
So I would say that I work on a could base with a high level of drudgery. Having an all knowing AI companion has taken an awful lot of the stress out of every aspect.
Even the very best developer I’ve ever worked with can’t match me when I’m using AI to augment my work. For most development tasks, being the best of the best no longer matters. But in a strange way, you still need the exact same analytical mindset because now it’s all about prompts. And it definitely does not negate the need for a developer.
Writing your own code is essentially just an exercise in nostalgia at this point. Or someone who prefers to pick seeds out of cotton themselves, instead of using a cotton gin.
Or perhaps instead of using voice dictation to write this post, I would write a letter and mail it to Hacker News so that they can publish my comment to the site. That’s how backwards writing code is quickly becoming.
I work on a code base that is easily over 1 million lines. It has had dozens of developers work on it over the last 15 to 20 years. Trying to follow the convention for the portion of the code base that I work on alone is a pain. I’ve been working on it for about seven years and I still had to ask questions.
So I would say that I work on a could base with a high level of drudgery. Having an all knowing AI companion has taken an awful lot of the stress out of every aspect.
Even the very best developer I’ve ever worked with can’t match me when I’m using AI to augment my work. For most development tasks, being the best of the best no longer matters. But in a strange way, you still need the exact same analytical mindset because now it’s all about prompts. And it definitely does not negate the need for a developer.
Writing your own code is essentially just an exercise in nostalgia at this point. Or someone who prefers to pick seeds out of cotton themselves, instead of using a cotton gin.
Or perhaps instead of using voice dictation to write this post, I would write a letter and mail it to Hacker News so that they can publish my comment to the site. That’s how backwards writing code is quickly becoming.