I'm not going to code by hand if it's 4x slower than having Claude do it. Yes, I can do that, but it just feels bad.

The analogy I like is it's like driving vs. walking. We were healthier when we walked everywhere, but it's very hard to quit driving and go back even if it's going to be better for you.

I walk all the time

During the summer I’ll walk 30-50 miles a week

However I’m not going to walk to work ever and I’m damn sir not going to walk in the rain or snow unless if I can avoid it

I actually like the analogy but for the opposite reason. Cars have become the most efficient way to travel for most industrial purposes. And yet enormous numbers of people still walk, run, ride bikes, or even horses, often for reasons entirely separate from financial gain.

Coding will take 4 times less time, but review will take almost the same amount of time if not more if the solution does not worl out of the box or has unforseen corner cases.

LLMs were trained on public code libraries and unfortunately most pf that OSS code is garbage.

There are ofcourse raisins there, but those are far in between.

Top it off with hallucinations and suddenly you spend more time debugging messy AI code when you could write the same in a fraction of that time.

The easier the task, the better job LLMs do, the harder the task the worse results you get.

Source: working with those tools daily.

Using your analogy:

- by car it will be 30km uphill, coz of how the road is built

- walking it will be 1km straight line

it's an exciting time, things are changing and changing beyond "here's my new javascript framework". It's definitely an industry shakeup kind of deal and no one knows what lies 6 months, 1 year, 5 years from now. It makes me anxious seeing as i have a wife+2 kids to care for and my income is tied to this industry but it's exciting too.

Well you need to learn to adapt quickly if you have that much infrastructure to maintain