I think the mention of Luddism is a nice tell. From Wikipedia: > The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed th

I think the mention of Luddism is a nice tell. From Wikipedia: > The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay and output quality. I think the push for AI is the modern-day equivalent for software development - to move making programs from being labour intensive to being capital intensive. There are some of us who don't see it as a good thing. As for my personal perspective - I view AI as the over-confident senior "salesman" programmer - it has no model for what sort of things it cannot do yet when it attempts anything it requires a lot of prompting to get somewhere which looks passable. My values for developing software is reliability and quality - which I had hoped we were going to achieve by further exploring advanced type systems (including effect systems), static analysis, model checkers, etc. Instead the "market" prioritises short-term garbage creation to push sales until the next quarterly cycle. I don't have much excitement for that.