I feel like the need for devs with the ability to read docs and understand problems will never die out.
The ones who immediately think any use of AI in your code flow is bad are probably the same people constantly reinventing the wheel and making shit UX apps in government services. AI ainโt hands off and you should know what its doing (just like not copy/paste stackoverflow) but itโs definitely another tool making the dev flow less annoyingly tedious.
In a way it's funny how we devs care about shipping features and being productive. You'd never see a factory worker be like "gotta treat the machine right, so that my productivity can be 8.23% higher". If your legacy code base is full of tech debt and you aren't given time to refactor, just spend 12 days tracking down and fixing a simple bug. And if they think someone else can do better, let the poor sucker waste his days away. If you have a manager, it's most likely not your job to make sure you're being used productively, it's theirs.
Feel like "I'm too smart/clever for that" is a Gen X and Millennial thing
My first projects were modern ones built with PHP7.4 and Laravel so I didn't really understand why people hated PHP. Now I'm handling a legacy project that uses a dumb closed source framework that doesn't have documentation and boy have I seen the worst kind of code that PHP allows you to write. On the backend side, they had no namespacing, no composer, no npm. The node modules were not in the .gitgnore. All the declarations on the frontend used var, countless lines of repetition that could easily be a function. From which I learned that bad code is not a language issue but a skill issue.
AI replaces copy paste from stack overflow then hacking the code till it works for you.
Obligatory โPHP badโ comment
I mean, you let machine write a code and if it's good, you accept it and if it's bad, you can always reject, you know
Do vanilla JS jamstack vs NextJS.
Php is the best
Let's be honest: at this point why would you care what languages and db you use? You gotta fix bugs and unrealistically short deadlines from your manager anyways. Save that passion for your coding projects you want to do for fun at your free time (if you have any). Just enjoy coding man.
I sometimes deploy using SFTP/ftp Damn I am old
yes Ai will make you bad problem solver
blud is in the stone ages using jquery ๐ญ๐ญ
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