AI coding agents are amazing, but lean on them too hard and your engineering skills atrophy. Aviation already lived through this. Here's what we can steal from how they fixed it.
Tools can be useful well before they’re taken for granted. Art software was always a hot mess. 3D software’s still a hot mess. People nonetheless find immense utility in these programs.
This tech would be a non-issue if it didn’t actually work. Chatbots can code now, and they’re good enough that I’ve seen critics fixate on maintainability, which is about as high-level as complaints could be. The big fat datacenter versions have caused sharp divisions by reimplementing open-source projects, using completely different structure in other languages entirely. The offline laptop versions are only months behind. Shit is getting weird in this house.
Tools can be useful well before they’re taken for granted. Art software was always a hot mess. 3D software’s still a hot mess. People nonetheless find immense utility in these programs.
This tech would be a non-issue if it didn’t actually work. Chatbots can code now, and they’re good enough that I’ve seen critics fixate on maintainability, which is about as high-level as complaints could be. The big fat datacenter versions have caused sharp divisions by reimplementing open-source projects, using completely different structure in other languages entirely. The offline laptop versions are only months behind. Shit is getting weird in this house.