> The people who typically have the most negative things to say about AI fall into camp #2
I think more often they simply picked the wrong programming language as a target. In my experience, AI is especially bad at writing Typescript/Javascript, which happens to overlap with the most widely used language. I have negative things to say about AI too when developing in that ecosystem. If I only ever used AI in that ecosystem I'd probably tell you it is useless with the rest of them.
But my daily work sees me working in more than one language and when I am in some other language environments I have no reservations about AI whatsoever. AI vs good code is no longer even at odds with each other. In those certain languages, the models write good, stable, production-ready code pretty much all the time. It is really quite amazing.
I think more often they simply picked the wrong programming language as a target. In my experience, AI is especially bad at writing Typescript/Javascript, which happens to overlap with the most widely used language. I have negative things to say about AI too when developing in that ecosystem. If I only ever used AI in that ecosystem I'd probably tell you it is useless with the rest of them.
But my daily work sees me working in more than one language and when I am in some other language environments I have no reservations about AI whatsoever. AI vs good code is no longer even at odds with each other. In those certain languages, the models write good, stable, production-ready code pretty much all the time. It is really quite amazing.