this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
368 points (96.9% liked)
Programming
24336 readers
105 users here now
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Rules
- Follow the programming.dev instance rules
- Keep content related to programming in some way
- If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos
Wormhole
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The real slowdown comes after when you realize you don't understand your own codebase because you relied too much on AI. To understand it well enough requires discipline, which in the current IT world is lacking anyway. Either you can rely entirely on AI or you need to monitor its every action, in which case you may be better off writing yourself. But this hybrid approach I don't think will pan out particularly well.
Yeah, it's interesting how strangely development is presented, like programming is only about writing code. They still do that when they tout ai coding capabilities.
I'm not against ai, it's amazing how quickly you can build something. But something small and limited one person can build. The whole human experience is missing, laziness, boredom, communication and issues with communication,... to actually build a good product that's more than a simple app.
Any new tool or technique will slow ANYONE down until you familiarize yourself and get used to it.
This article mind was say the sky is blue and grass is green, it isn’t news and it’s quite obvious it will take a few uses to get decent with it. Like any other new tool, software, etc.
This is true. However, the issue is we keep oscillating between AI is useless and over hyped; and it will solve all of life's problems and you should not call it slop out of respect. The truth is somewhere in between, but we need to fight for it to find it.