alt Hacker NewsIt's not Vim vs VSCode though - the analogy might be writing in assembler vs writing in your high level language of choice.
Using AI you're increasing the level of abstraction you can work at, and reducing the amount of detail you have to worry about. You tell the AI what you want to do, not how to do it, other than providing context that does tell it about the things that you actually care about (as much or little as you choose, but generally the more the better to achieve a specific outcome).
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This is so stupid. You still have to review that code, you still have to know what the solution to something is, ergo, you still need to know how to do it and you still have to deal with the cognitive load from reviewing someone else's code. I don't understand how you can write as if the implementation, fairly trivial and mechanical, is somehow more taxing than reading someone else's code..
This is not the support argument you think it is, it just further allures to the fact that people raving about AI just generate slop and either don't review their code or just send it for their coworkers to review.
I guess AI bros are just the equivalent of script-kiddies, just running shit they don't know how it works and claiming credit for it.
> the analogy might be writing in assembler vs writing in your high level language of choice.
If it were deterministic, yes, but it's not. When I write in a high level language, I never have to check the compiled code, so this comparison makes no sense.
If we see new kinds of languages, or compile targets, that would be different.