My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog

The author argues that AI skeptics in software development are wrong because they're evaluating LLMs based on outdated usage patterns (copy-pasting from ChatGPT), not how modern AI coding agents actually work—agents that autonomously navigate codebases, run tools, compile code, and iterate on results. LLMs significantly reduce boilerplate coding, eliminate the friction of starting new projects, and overcome the psychological inertia that prevents developers from tackling ambitious work, making them the second most important technological development in the author's career regardless of future progress.

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