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Yoriclast Tuesday at 12:05 AM1 replyview on HN

Exactly that.

I suspect that we're going to witness a (further) fork within developers. Let's call them the PM-style developers on one side and the system-style developers on the other.

The PM-style developers will be using popular loosely/dynamically-typed languages because they're easy to generate and they'll give you prototypes quickly.

The system-style developers will be using stricter languages and type systems and/or lots of TDD because this will make it easier to catch the generated code's blind spots.

One can imagine that these will be two clearly distinct professions with distinct toolsets.


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OptionOfTlast Tuesday at 12:30 AM

I actually think that the direct usage of AI will reduce in the system-style group (if it was ever large there).

There is a non-trivial cost in taking apart the AI code to ensure it's correct, even with tests. And I think it's easy to become slower than writing it from scratch.

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