but fleshys may not be that great anyway. and writing documentation is now an AI job.
Yes a knowledge of coding/systems absolutely helps as you can guide it in the right direction. like instead of generating hundreds of elements with 'onclick' in them, you direct it to add a bubble click handler at the parent, the kind of thing I do now.
Unless you're chasing the beam on an atari 2600, creating a program should not be exclusive to masters of the universe. In some ways it never has been. VB, Filemaker, Foxpro, DBase, whatevs. Reduces the barrier to creation of business specific functionality. Or recording macros in Excel. Even things like Juice takes all the complexity of writing cross platform audio apps. We don't accuse them of cheating.
But this is AI as it is now. It's only going to get better. And your job as an engineer will be to review changes, like you would do as a committer on any large project with a bunch of randoms underneath.
And as for me its like 10x-15x faster. writes better docs, adds more error checking than I ever would. It hardly matters either as nobody gives a crap about what i produce. very niche. dont want to spend weeks on shit that gets 60 views on its best week ever. as you (might) know, time is limited (lung biopsy later this week but its pretty clear its spread to the lungs). can't be bothered to hand code anything unless it really needs it. which all this stuff doesn't.
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What makes you think it's only going to get better?
History of AI has always tended to come up against an unbudgeable problem, and there seems to be potentially a lot of those in the LLM approach.
Enshittification has begun price-wise.
The product they are selling to people would not need you to direct it how to do things properly. It only works for you because you can code, and it sounds like that's all you need for your use case, but I suspect that's a minority of their users.
(And sorry to hear about shit you're going through.)
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