I get you have a financial incentive to say that but at least back it up. I do believe using ai tooling is here and now and a worthwhile endeavor but in my view we have not settled best practices yet and it depends on the individual preferences right now.
Tools are for us to figure out what works and what does not. Saying be prepared to be disconnected sounds like slop by someone getting forced into someone else’s idea.
If someone has a great workflow using a tool like codex that’s great but it does not mean it has to work for me. I love using codex for code reviews, testing and other changes that are independent of each other, like bugs. I don’t like using it for feature work, I have spent years building software and I am not going to twiddle my thumbs waiting for codex on something I am building real time. Now I think there is an argument that if you have the perfect blueprint of what to build that you could leverage a tool like codex but I am often not in that position.
AI coding tools right now are rudimentary, and when used properly they can already massively increase velocity and enable capabilities, and this isn't random boosterism this is based on pushing myself towards 100% AI generated code over the last year, and working to improve my throughput and reduce the error rate of my generated code. The AI coding tools industry is being led by a 23 year old with no software engineering or AI experience, that should tell you something about the hype vs rigor tradeoff that is being made.
Once we collectively start actually engineering AI coding systems rather than trying to surf on vibes their power will become much more apparent to the naysayers who haven't invested the time in the processes and tools.
As for backing it up, if you want to hop on my company github you can check out the spark graphs for my projects, and feel free to poke around the code I've spent time tightening to see that it's not slop (have fun with the async simd rust in valknut/scribe), and keep in mind I have large private projects (>200k) that are active as well. I've probably delivered 400k LoC in the last month with >60% coverage on large codebases, 99.99% AI generated.
What are you even saying? That was my whole point when you told me I need to be prepared to feel disconnected. You literally repeated what I said with a different narrative. Again your original statement is pure opinion and I don’t think anyone knows where we ultimately land at. For me, I don’t like Claude code or code for feature work I am actively working on.