The way I do most of my coding nowadays is by describing (in English) to Claude LLM what I want done, and it just does it, while I sit back and watch it type. It's amazing. You should learn to code!
There's definitely still a subculture of people who look for things AI can't do yet, and try to parlay that into evidence AI can't do much at all; just like there's Flat Earthers who're similarly dedicated to a cause.
3. Do you care that the vast environmental footprint of the racks of servers that are vastly inefficiently wasting energy to do your job for you – badly – are destroying the planet and meaning that my child has no future?
AI is already superior to humans for 99% of coding tasks. It can do a day's worth of coding in seconds, and write code better than even the best humans. Thousands of times better. Thousands of times faster.
In the past several weeks I've accomplished what would've taken me several YEARS to do, pre-AI.
I think you are both fantasising wildly and also generalising falsely from yourself to others.
But throughout this thread you offer no evidence, no citations, just your own extremist unsupported opinions, mixed with ad hominem abuse. I am done. If I knew how to block people on HN I would block you.
Not really.
I know people think they are... but then some people think water can magically be imbued with healing powers.
Here's how that works:
https://www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com/
LLMs are 99% hype. They can't think, or reason, or count... or program.