Good for you. Yeah skill atrophy is a real concern, and I'm afraid no matter how much I try to avoid it, there's a real and significant chance of that happening. I could look at it as similar to forgetting the syntaxes because I can look them up, but I think it's a lot more serious than that.
That would work if there is such a thing as justice in this world. The reality is that companies don't give a shit, and you'll be jobless clutching to your ideals. My compromise is that ok I'll use AI and deliver stuff for you, but I'll only do it in a way that benefits me as well. I won't lose my identity as a python developer to use your ai.
That's an interesting approach! I'll look into moth, thank you!
Glad to know there is somebody else sharing my feelings on this. Even with ai critical comments, there's still some great comments here. I cross posted this to experienced_devs and there a bunch of useful comments there as well.
I have 18 years of programming experience, this is not about not knowing how to code. It's about using a new technology effectively without losing your identity as a senior programmer. May be you have the ultimate say in your company, and can stave off agentic coding until the bubble bursts, but I don't have that luxury. Agentic coding has fucked up all output velocity expectations, so even if you don't use them, you're still expected to output at the new velocity, which would just about kill mj love for programming.
Is kiro platform agnostic, or tied into AWS? I'll check that out, thanks
Big as in an application with more than one scope. Yeah don't go by their marketing material. I hate the agentic coding trend, but I'm not losing my job by not being able to adopt to it. I already have a reputation of AI hater in my company lol.
At least it's better than just asking the agent to build something without any control over it, which is what a lot of junior devs are doing these days.
How is open spec for Greenfield apps? I've heard it's best suited for existing code. I'll try the 'in the future' heads up, thanks
It is 'leava all coding to agents', but at least it's 'leave most of the design control to me'. I was, and still am, and old style programmer yelling at AI to get off my lawn, but like any new technology, I'm trying to do my best to learn and make best use of it so that I grow as a developer even though it is meant to 'save money for the company'. It's here whether I like it or not, so I'making sure I don't lose my job because of it, while still being employable when it inevitably crashes to the ground.







Not stopping coding altogether, but if I use AI the right way, then I can keep up my velocity while also taking time for manual programming projects alongside.