The End of IDEs
aifordevs.substack.comI see this kind of AI driven development too much, it is too idealistic. Written by people unaware of the reality of development.The article never really mentions post-production bug fixing. As if the deployed code is perfect. And when a critical bug is detected, what's the process ?
This argument fails to support its conclusion. All of the IDed human tasks currently done in IDE without "AI" will need IDE when with "AI".
I will go against the grain and say I'm not worried about IDEs, or my job as a programmer.
If so-called AI in its current state, extrapolated into the next few years, can do a significant part of your job as well as or better than you can, that says more about your skills and the value you bring to the table than it does about the capabilities of LLM coding assistants.
The AI bubble looks more like a (half-baked) solution looking for problems than anything truly useful. The models cost way more to operate than what their owners currently charge for them, so they seem cheap, for now. Big companies jockey to create and control a market with hype and subsidies, creating a lot of FOMO and worry. It will pass.
I'm also not worried for my job as a programmer. I do speak from my experience though that my workflow as completely changed in the past 12 months. I now writes a lot more technical specs than code, and I do most of my work outside of the IDE.
I think like any other tool: it's not a silver bullet. For some use cases it's good, for others - not so much.
Thx for sharing this opinion