We mourn our craft

kept by eddie feb 10

An article laments that AI coding tools are destroying the craft of programming, but commenters largely disagree, finding the tools empowering.

Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
Professional AI-assisted coding yields mixed results: high productivity on greenfield tasks but significant technical debt and deskilling risks in complex codebases.
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AddyOsmani.com - AI writes code faster. Your job is still to prove it works.
AI-generated code shifts the bottleneck from writing to verification; human code review remains essential for security, context, and accountability.
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