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Developers need the dopamine hit of creation. That’s not a perk, it’s what keeps good engineers engaged, learning, retained, and prevents burnout. The joy of coding is probably what allowed them to become experienced devs in the first place. Replace creation with oversight and you get faster burnout, not faster shipping. You’ve turned engineering, the creative work, into the worst form of QA. The AI does all the art, the human folds the laundry.
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Imagine a spectrum. On the far left are humans typing on the keyboard, seeing the code in the IDE. On the far right: AGI. It implements everything on its own. Cheaply, flawlessly, better than any human, and no human overseer is required. Somewhere between those two extremes there’s you, using AI, today. That threshold moves to the right every week as models improve, tools mature, and workflows get refined.
Apparently this is the premise of the article, and 50% of it is dreaming of a future. This is bullshit.
Imagine a spectrum. On the far left are humans walking. On the far right: faster-than-light-speed travel. Cheaply, flawlessly, better than any human, and no human overseer is required. Somewhere between those two extremes there’s you, using transport, today. That threshold moves to the right every week as models improve, tools mature, and workflows get refined.
