“[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.”

People keep asking me If I use Generative AI tools for coding and what I think of them, so this is my effort to put my thoughts in writing, so that I can send people here instead of having to repeat myself every time I get the question.