> I like writing code, even if it's boilerplate. It's fun for me, and I want to keep doing it. Using AI to do that part for me is just...not fun.
Good news for you is that you can continue to do what you are doing. Nobody is going to stop you.
There are people who like programming in assembly. And they still get to do that.
If you are thinking that in the future employers may not want you to do that, then yes, that is a concern. But, if the AI based dev tool hype dies out, as many here suspect it will, then the employers will see the light and come crawling back.
> is the field of computer science plateaued to the point that most of what we do is linear combination of well established patterns?
Computer science is different from writing business software to solve business problems. I think Boris was talking about the second and not the first. And I personally think he is mostly correct. At least for my organization. It is very rare for us to write any code by hand anymore. Once you have a solid testing harness and a peer review system run by multiple and different LLMs, you are in pretty good shape for agentic software development. Not everybody's got these bits figured out. They stumble around and them blame the tools for their failures.
> Not everybody's got these bits figured out. They stumble around and them blame the tools for their failures.
Possible. Yet that's a pretty broad brush. It could also be that some businesses are more heavily represented in the training set. Or some combo of all the above.
> I still have no idea how to pay for Gemini CLI, in codex/claude its very simple $20/month for entry and $200/month for ton of weekly usage.
This!
I would like to sign up for a paid plan for Gemini CLI. But I have not been able to figure out how. I already have Codex and Claude plans. Those were super easy to sign up for.
Supposedly the Google One AI plans[1] allow for this. I've been testing an AI Pro plan, but haven't gotten CLI to work yet (keeps asking me to sign in). So yeah...
What’s your difficulty? Google has published easy to follow 27-step instructions for how to sign up for the half a dozen services you need to chain together to enable this common usecase!
If I am the only one who can use it and only from one computer, it would be entirely useless for my needs. I have several computers and also family members who would need access to that data. A Google Docs spreadsheet would be a better tool for my specific needs I think.
> There's absolutely no way to contain people who want to use this for misdeeds.
There is no practical way to stop someone from going to a crowded mall during Christmas shopping season and mowing people down with a machine gun. Yet, we still haven't made malls illegal.
> ... if they are allowed to continue.
You may have a fantastic new idea on how we can create a worldwide ban on such a thing. If so, please share it with the rest of us.
> Many people have reported Opus 4.6 is a step back from Opus 4.5.
Many people say many things. Just because you read it on the Internet, doesn't mean that it is true. Until you have seen hard evidence, take such proclamations with large grains of salt.
dbase IV was popular when I was in college. I never used it. But instead cut my teeth on Paradox and later SolidDB which supported SQL 92. I was blown away from SolidDB in the early 90s. So much power in such a tiny database product at that time.
Good news for you is that you can continue to do what you are doing. Nobody is going to stop you.
There are people who like programming in assembly. And they still get to do that.
If you are thinking that in the future employers may not want you to do that, then yes, that is a concern. But, if the AI based dev tool hype dies out, as many here suspect it will, then the employers will see the light and come crawling back.
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