alt Hacker News> ... with AI coding IS faster and quality is better than ever before.
Is this claim based on something?
I'm not against or "for" AI (whatever that means), I try to use it as effectively I can, but for me it's not at all obvious that quality is better than ever before.
Speed I can buy, especially in new projects and utilities, but quality? At least I haven't seen this in practice, if anything I'm just seeing more code, issues, PR's and pressure ==> more slop, more bugs, less quality.
You can always say "skill issue" and "process issue", but that's partly my point here, AI doesn't magically solve this.
Presumably it is based on that person's personal experiences, like your own comment and all the other comments here?
Speaking for myself, based on my own personal experiences, quality is by far the bigger advantage of these tools. It has never ever been easier to write automated tests and to automate tedious manual validation. I'm running my code through like 10x more paces than I ever did before, because I can just say "hey try running this in these twenty different ways" (including with browser automation, if that's relevant), without needing to either do the tedious steps to run all that or to take the time to write a script to do it, and to compile and attach the findings to the PR. This saves me hours to days of work on validation, but the reality is that I just wouldn't have spent that time in the past, I just stopped at a lower bar for quality, because I couldn't justify the ROI for spending all that time on it. But now the ROI is huge, so it's a no brainer.
If people are not taking advantage of this, then yes, that is literally a skill issue.