Even within AI coding how people use this varies wildly from one people trying to one shot apps to people being barely above tab completers.
When people talk about this stuff they usually mean very different techniques. And last months way of doing it goes away in favor of a new technique.
I think the best you can do now is try lots of different new ways of working keep an open mind
Or just wait for things to settle. As fast as the field is moving, staying ahead of the game is probably high investment with little return, as the things you spend a ton of time honing today may be obsolete tomorrow, or simply built into existing products with much lower learning cost.
Note, if staying on the bleeding edge is what excites you, by all means do. I'm just saying for people who don't feel that urge, there's probably no harm just waiting for stuff to standardize and slow down. Either approach is fine so long as you're pragmatic about it.
Interesting - what makes you think things will slow down?
> Interesting - what makes you think things will slow down?
Everything slows down eventually. What makes you think this won't?
Settle. Not necessarily slow down. We'll see people gravitate towards a few things, and those will become the standards. It's already started, with claude and codex, compared to the wild west situation a year ago.
The closest parallel I can think of is javascript frameworks. The 2010s had a new framework out every week. Lots of people (somewhat including myself) wasted a ton of time trying to keep up with the churn, imagining that constantly being on the bleeding edge was somehow important. The smart ones just picked something reasonably mature and stuck with it. Eventually things coalesced around React. All that time trying to keep up with the churn added essentially no value.
What makes you think they won’t? And even if they won’t, not wasting energy going through the churn is a winning strategy if eventually AI reads your mind to know what you want to do.
Yeah, it's frustrating that it seems most AI conversations devolve into straw men of either zero AI or one shot apps. There's a huge middle ground where I, and it seems like many others, have found AI very useful. We're still at the stage where it's somewhat unique for each person where AI can work for them (or not).