humanity

I have to be honest: I feel I’m taking crazy pills recently.

There were a growing number of posts, in the past, praising AI for coding; then, it started to grow, and grow, and now, on LinkedIn, almost all the posts that come to me are about AI and coding, how good they are, how the “game has changed”, etc, etc, etc.

But here’s the catch: every bad practice that we fought against, over and over, for literal decades is now being praised because “AI is doing it”.

Every. Little. Thing.

From the most obvious to the less, against all good judgment, against academic research that shows that AI usage decreases contribution between coworkers, or that they make programmers slower while they think they are faster, that the code quality is lower, or that it makes people work longer hours, it seems that all rules are off when it comes to AI.
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I have to be honest: I feel I’m taking crazy pills recently.

There were a growing number of posts, in the past, praising AI for coding; then, it started to grow, and grow, and now, on LinkedIn, almost all the posts that come to me are about AI and coding, how good they are, how the “game has changed”, etc, etc, etc.

But here’s the catch: every bad practice that we fought against, over and over, for literal decades is now being praised because “AI is doing it”.

Every. Little. Thing.

From the most obvious to the less, against all good judgment, against academic research that shows that AI usage decreases contribution between coworkers, or that they make programmers slower while they think they are faster, that the code quality is lower, or that it makes people work longer hours, it seems that all rules are off when it comes to AI.
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