Clothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper than a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at the underpaid, gruesome labor that people in poorer regions of the planet have to do to […]
I disagree on both of those. One off scripts are generally low value. I’ve probably written tens of thousands of lines of bash, but I still look up syntax every time because I purge the low value info when I’m done.
And autocomplete is exactly there for boilerplate and obvious code. There is ALWAYS a need for that code. Trying to abstract away all duplication will often burn a lot of new brain cycles for both the original engineer and the next engineer that has to maintain it. Sometimes the straightforward code is the best code. And that isn’t even touching on bootstrapping a new project which will necessarily require a lot of that basic repetitive code.
I’m still an AI skeptic and anti-AI, but you can be opposed to something while still recognizing it’s use.