“[People] simply drop it into where it needs to go (or not), and somehow, magically, it seems to work. And I am not talking about not remembering flags for Linux cli tooling (tar, looking at you), I am talking about people copy pasting entire piped xargs commands into their terminal and then praying that it doesn’t ruin your day somehow. No thinking, no learning, just slop everywhere. Yes, people did this before AI using Stackoverflow snippets, but at least you had to fit the puzzle piece into your architecture, and think about the code in some way or form. Not anymore.”

An account of using AI to do a project that was just a bit out of reach previously. There’s some really good insights, like comparing AI coding to slot machines.