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I like to chat shit about AI coding assistants for the same reason I like to chat shit about anything that’s proffered as a game-changing revolution in how things are done – the effectiveness is always vastly overrated and the tooling and workflows take a long time to develop and tune. But I’m very happy for other people to improve the state of the art, and eventually I suppose my scepticism will mellow into a reluctant usage in certain contexts.
But mostly I just really enjoy doing what I do day-to-day and don’t particularly fancy making any radical changes to that at the moment.