When you get old enough, you realise the cycle turns around and around
A new dev tech shows up.
Old devs say: That's not real programming. Real programmers use the old ways. You take all the skill out of it. You'll never learn to do it the "right way".
And then, it becomes standard, an no-one wants to go back but a few hobbyists.
It's been this way with switching from assembly to more human-readable languages.
It's been this way with syntax highlighting.
... and with IDEs.
I remember when we scoffed at IntelliSense over the Water Cooler because them kids didn't have to memorise stuff anymore.
I kept cursing at Docker and npm insanity, having colourful languages for people who hid behind abstraction because they did not understand basic functionality.
And today, it is AI. Right now, it divides. Those who love it, those who consider it 'cheating' or 'stealing other people's code'. In reality, it is just another level of abstraction in the development stack. Tomorrow, it'll just be 'the standard way to do things'.
A new dev tech shows up. Old devs say: That's not real programming. Real programmers use the old ways. You take all the skill out of it. You'll never learn to do it the "right way". And then, it becomes standard, an no-one wants to go back but a few hobbyists.
It's been this way with switching from assembly to more human-readable languages.
It's been this way with syntax highlighting.
... and with IDEs.
I remember when we scoffed at IntelliSense over the Water Cooler because them kids didn't have to memorise stuff anymore.
I kept cursing at Docker and npm insanity, having colourful languages for people who hid behind abstraction because they did not understand basic functionality.
And today, it is AI. Right now, it divides. Those who love it, those who consider it 'cheating' or 'stealing other people's code'. In reality, it is just another level of abstraction in the development stack. Tomorrow, it'll just be 'the standard way to do things'.
I wonder what comes next.