> This blog post shows the journey that anyone not in one of those two vocal minorities is going through right now: A realization that AI coding tools can be a large accelerator but you need to learn how to use them correctly in your workflow and you need to remain involved in the code. It’s not as clickbaity as the extreme takes that get posted all the time. It’s a little disappointing to read the part where they said hard work was still required. It is a realistic and balanced take on the state of AI coding, though.

I appreciate the balanced takes and also the notion that one can use these AI tools to build software with principled use.

However, what I am still failing to see is concrete evidence that this is all faster and cheaper than just a human learning and doing everything themself or with a small team. The cat is out of the bag, so to speak, but I think it's still correct to question these things. I am putting in a _lot_ of work to reach a principled status quo with these tools, and it is still quite unclear whether it's actually improvement versus just a side quest to wrangle tools that everyone else is abusing.