The rate of improvement has given us no time to think at all. The past 3 years of progress should have been spread over the next 30 years to even give us a chance.

Some of us very much are, and we are ignored and/or attacked by people who don’t think about this quite often.

This is such an interesting time to be in. Truly skilled developers like Rob Pike really don’t like AI, but many professional developers love it. I side with Mr. Pike on it all.

I am not a skilled developer like he is, but I do like to think about what I’m doing and to plan for the future when writing code that might be part of that future. I like very simple code which is easy to read and to understand, and I try quite hard to use data types which can help me in multiple ways at once. The feeling when you solve a problem you’ve never solved before is indescribable, and bots strip all of that away from you and they write differently than I would.

I don’t think any bot would ever come up with something like Plan9 without explicit instructions, and that single example showcases what bots can’t do: think about what is appropriate when doing something new.

I don’t know what is right and what is wrong here, I just know that is an interesting time.