I have similar feelings though maybe a bit more optimistic take. Obviously the AI hype train hasn't taken us to anywhere objectively better. Software has in no way become less buggy (if anything it feels worse in the past few years) and most if not all of the software I use predates the LLM era.
It feels like most developers en masse have taken on some masochist pleasure at deskilling themselves while becoming a prompt engineer beholden to OpenAI/MS/Google.
The upside is that those who take time to learn and improve can write software that most devs have given up the hope of being able to write. Write the next Maigt or org-mode while everyone else is asking AI to generate tailwind HTML React forms!
> It feels like most developers en masse have taken on some masochist pleasure at deskilling themselves while becoming a prompt engineer beholden to OpenAI/MS/Google.
It's a weird/delusional timeline, that's for sure.
It feels like most developers en masse have taken on some masochist pleasure at deskilling themselves while becoming a prompt engineer beholden to OpenAI/MS/Google.
The upside is that those who take time to learn and improve can write software that most devs have given up the hope of being able to write. Write the next Maigt or org-mode while everyone else is asking AI to generate tailwind HTML React forms!