> if I had written it completely by myself from the start, I would have finished the project in the same amount of time but I’d understand the details far better.
I believe the argument from the other camp is that you don't need to understand the code anymore, just like you don't need to understand the assembly language.
People who really care about performance still do look at the assembly. Very few people write assembly anymore, a larger number do look at assembly every so often. It’s still a minority of people though.
I guess it would be similar here: a small few people will hand write key parts of code, a larger group will inspect the code that’s generated, and a far larger group won’t do either. At least if AI goes the way that the “other side” says.
Anyway, this stuff makes me think of what it would be like if you had Tolkein around today using AI to assist him in his writing.
'Claude, generate me a paragraph describing Frodo and Sam having an argument over the trustworthiness of Gollum. Frodo should be defending Gollum and Sam should be on his side.'
'Revise that so that Sam is Harsher and Frodo more stubborn.'
Sooner or later I look at that and think he'd be better off just writing the damned book instead of wasting so much time writing prompts.
Yeah, this was always the easy part.