Upon reflection, I’ve come to believe that quality software is not about how many features something has or how quickly it is built but rather how cared for it is by the designers, developers, and product people who work on it. There’s an ineffable aspect to my favorite pieces of software where I don’t think of it is as feature matrix but rather as an interface made by a human for humans that’s a joy to use. And when you build software with AI, it leads to worse software. Sure, it’s faster to build initially, but I think to the detriment of the quality of the code and the user interface and the user experience.
I’ll tell you right now that I’d rather ask an LLM what’s wrong with my code than deal with the toxic userbase of stackoverflow (and I say that as someone who never actually got flamed on that site).
It can definitely be a crutch but that’s an exercise for the user to learn how to not become reliant on it, any more than becoming reliant on an expert by constantly asking them questions.