The Bitter Prediction

The Bitter Prediction I'm one of many developers experiencing the whirlwind emotional phases of AI's introduction: dismissal, disbelief, excitement, and acceptance. But after working with Claude, Copilot, and Gemini for a while, I have concerns... • • • I recently spent a few eye-opening evenings with Claude Code, refactoring a small hobby project written in Rust. Each night, I was blown away by the incredible capabilities of the tool. It reasoned about my code in a deep and meaningful way. It discovered the project's architectural patterns and understood my intentions as a programmer. I've never been more productive! Not only that, the generated code was high-quality, efficient, and conformed to my coding guidelines. It routinely "checked its work" by running unit tests to eliminate hallucinations and bugs. It was a thing of beauty and it left me increasingly excited about trying it on all the other projects I’m working on. For a few days, I had a fantastic time. Then, I didn’t. I ... Read full article.