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Exactly, you write them with AI


IDEs have been auto completing braces, inserting imports and generating framework boilerplate for decades.

We don’t need AI for this and it’s 10x the compute to do it slower with AI.

LLMs are useful but they aren’t a silver bullet. We don’t need to replace everything with it just because.


Yeah, but the management achievement is to call 'autocomplete' AI.

AI doesn't mean LLM after all. AI means 'a computer thing'.


I’ve been calling if-statements AI since before I graduated college




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