What I find curious in these AI discussions is how the tables have turned: Better tooling used to be pretty universally appreciated. I've never heard anyone say

What I find curious in these AI discussions is how the tables have turned: Better tooling used to be pretty universally appreciated. I've never heard anyone say that IDEs, garbage collection, static code analysis, profilers, debuggers, frameworks or anything else that makes the life of a developer easier was "replacing" them. This stuff replaces programmers just like LLMs do, they make the job easier/faster for experts, so you can do more with less. They also make the job easier for laypeople, but there's specialised tooling for that already, mostly in the form of no code tools. Personally, I'd take an AI generated code base a non-developer whipped up over the no code nightmares I've seen _any_ day. But just like better tooling for experts, better tooling for laypeople isn't a particularly new thing.