Your codebase doesn't care how it got written

How about we just let nature take its course and rely on developers' laziness, one of the virtues of a good programmer?

I go to ChatGPT for basically any annoying code snippet and even functions now. I'm done ever having to guess at map reduce syntax again, or trying to remember if slice mutates the target array.

I'm messing with with codex more and more. But I still don't trust it to design features for me. Maybe in 6 months, I will. Is it really that important to force developers NOW to get to a place they'll get to in a few months anyway, assuming the hype is real?

I'm hearing the same conversation play out at small software companies right now. Engineers telling their managers: am I being forced to adopt this, or do I need to go somewhere else?

Wrote about why I think the job description already changed, and what I'd rather see teams do about it than have that exhausting conversation on repeat.

How about we just let people code how they want if the codebase doesn’t care how it gets written? If it doesn’t matter why must we use one particular tool versus another?

Amish craftsmen confronted with a nail gun and an impact driver. Yeah you can still build a house swinging your arm if you want, but others won't.