It's right, AI does require giving up control and letting things be done differently, depends how much you really use it.
It's the same when you get a junior dev to work on things, it's just not how you would do it yourself and frequently wrong or naive. Sometime is brilliant and better than you would have done yourself.
That doesn't mean don't have junior devs, but having one doesn't mean you don't have to do corrective stuff and refinements to their work.
Most of us aren't changing the world with our code, we're contributing an incredibly small niche part of how it works. People (normal people, lol) only care what your system does for them, not how it works or how great the code is.
... but a small PR might warn you when your renewal automation breaks, before the cert actually expires: https://heiioncall.com/blog/barebone-scripts-to-check-ssl-ce... (a small blog post I wrote with example scripts for checking SSL cert expiry from Bash, Python, Ruby, more) ;)
I get this comment sometimes and also other comments saying it 404s. The site has been up for years but seems there's still some old DNS floating around. Or some misconfiguration on my side.
I feel like this is quite a complex style to implement in terms of layout and animation, especially while still taking into account accessible colors etc, but we'll see.
I just use Copilot (across VS Code, VS etc), it lets you pick the model you want and it's a fixed monthly cost (and there is a free tier). They have most of the core features of these other tools now.
Cursor, Windsurf et al have no "moat" (in startup speak), in that a sufficiently resourced organization (e.g. Microsoft) can just copy anything they do well.
VS code/Copilot has millions of users, cursor etc have hundreds of thousands of users. Google claims to have "hundreds of millions" of users but we can be pretty sure that they are quoting numbers for their search product.
Nostalgia: My first job in 1997 was a windows apps in C++, it was weather software used on ships and oil rigs, we used to ship updates on floppy disk via helicopter.
Although I'm liking the use of javascript classes, not for any technical reasons just that it's a defiant middle finger to the React crew (who you now no longer hear from) that cancelled classes.
It's the same when you get a junior dev to work on things, it's just not how you would do it yourself and frequently wrong or naive. Sometime is brilliant and better than you would have done yourself.
That doesn't mean don't have junior devs, but having one doesn't mean you don't have to do corrective stuff and refinements to their work.
Most of us aren't changing the world with our code, we're contributing an incredibly small niche part of how it works. People (normal people, lol) only care what your system does for them, not how it works or how great the code is.
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