AI industrialized a previously creative output. If you enjoyed the writing of code this is a nightmare. If writing code was a chore to solve a problem, this is a blessing.
I think most developers are both! Depends on the task. Sometimes I want the result, sometimes I want the process.
Also sometimes, if I want the process, it’s because it’s something I want to have intimate knowledge of. There’s a practical benefit to writing stuff yourself, even if most of the time that benefit is tiny.
When you have an LLM produce something and then delete, you didn’t learn much.
And that's entirely your fault, not the LLM's.
Just today I was toying with AI to make some bumper music. It came up with some great phrases and fragments. But its 'song' output is a hilarious mess, and feels like I'd be better off starting from scratch and taking only the bits that work.
Then there's the ethical question of where those clever lyrics even came from. Perhaps just lifted from niche works I never heard before.
Having worked a lot with AI agents, I don't agree.
AI agents are amazing at producing response and results that look correct as long as you don't look too closely.
Even when I try to write extremely detailed specs and test harnesses, even Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on max will find creative new ways to write code that breaks under real use cases.
Doing throwaway LLM output, playing with it a little bit, and then calling it done will create a false sense that you're really good at getting LLMs to produce working things.
I think the real bifurcation is whether you will settle on that belief.
Some of us are settling on the belief that the idiot savant, lacking the coherence of a functional mind, cannot be managed. It's essentially a chaos agent masquerading as something more cooperative.
But it’s never really that straightforward.
There is some truth to the idea that some people enjoy it and others do not. I haven’t seen a pattern between them.
That's exactly what the second group in my comment was meant to address. You enjoy the end product, therefore being able to skip the code writing is appealing.
The blog post is about someone who was having AI write a lot of side projects that they weren't even interesting in using. The post directly states that they were not useful, they didn't need them, and they weren't interested in maintaining or even finishing them.
There are a lot of people with high slop tolerance and who are seemingly prepared to endure the side effects of that.