Definitely share your feeling that people move the goalposts from "AI can do it" to "well it would have been able to do it if you used model o2.7 in an IDE with

Definitely share your feeling that people move the goalposts from "AI can do it" to "well it would have been able to do it if you used model o2.7 in an IDE with RAG and also told it how to do it in the prompt" ...ok, at some point it's less value for the effort than writing the code myself, thanks That said, AI does make some things easier today, like if you have an example to use for "make me a page like this but with data from x instead of y". Often it's faster than searching documentation, even with the caveat that it might hallucinate. And ofc it will probably improve over time. The particular improvement I'd like to see is (along with in general doing things right) finding the simplest solution without constantly having to be told to do so. My experience is the biggest drawback to letting chatgpt/claude/etc loose is quickly churning out a bunch of garbage, never stopping to say this will be too complex to do anything with in the future. TFA claims only humans can resist entropy by understanding the overall design; again idk if that will never improve but it feels like the big problem right now.