The advent of powerful AI coding tools has quickly made programmers heavily reliant on the tech, with experts warning that they’re slowly but surely losing the ability to write code by hand.
It’s a growing existential crisis that’s significantly raising the chance of errors or security issues in AI code that hasn’t been properly vetted. Experts are warning of a “class divide” between those, who are over relying on AI tools and more experienced coders, or “craftsmen,” who are left wading through the former’s group’s output and applying any necessary fixes.
Meanwhile, coders who’ve been instructed to use nothing but AI in a race to the bottom are losing their minds, saying they’re relegated to pushing buttons instead of taking pride in their work and building meaningful products themselves.
As a user who goes by “v0xium” argued on X, the situation is getting out of hand. In a post that’s been viewed over seven million times and liked tens of thousands of times, the user warned that “it is over.”
