Post #1173742

Here’s something I just don’t get about The Discourse on AI coding agents: people talk about how letting it handle boilerplate makes them faster. I realize I’m not using the latest trendy frameworks so I don’t know how much more boilerplate they require than the coding I’m more familiar with, but … I have never once thought typing out* boilerplate slowed me down. Usually that stuff is all muscle memory and it gives me a chance to think about, say, function signatures and how I might want simpler or overloaded signatures for something that might get called from multiple contexts. Arguably that thinking time made my code better. The coding agent certainly isn’t thinking about abstraction and reuse, so if the programmer isn’t using that time to think about it, who is? * Widgets in IDEs where you have to click through modals, tabs, or nested interfaces, and nothing is ever where you think it should be, though? That stuff can go to hell.