Except this usage is more Bobby Tables and less Taylor Swift.

I suspected but I'm sure someone would wonder.

These are actually the same two algorithms, renamed to be less fun.

Cthulhu wants nothing more than to love you. Alas, he is not skilled in the Love-craft.

(With apologies to Sluggy Freelance.)

Quite so. There's different levels of verification. Here I mean, do these changes look like what I would do if I were making this change manually. But AI can help with catching edge cases too. You use a different agent with a different prompt to review the code. It catches a lot. Some false positives but that's what judgement is for.

There is sometimes a gap between when you know the what and when you know the how. AI makes that gaping smaller.

There is also a gap between when you have a pretty clear idea of what change you want to make and actually getting it done with passing tests. AI also fills that gap.

In neither case do you need to check from scratch. You already know what you wanted. Did it do it or not? That's easy to verify.

Yes, there is some fun lost in not working out all the details yourself. But it makes up for it in the ability to actually do all those little tweaks you had in mind but never had time for.

I like doing code cleanups. My boss likes me doing stuff supporting business priorities. Thanks to coding AI, I now have the bandwidth to do both.

GIVE ME GENESIS!

(But autocorrect still sucks. "Allow me to rephrase....")

Slow me to rephrase. I was skeptical of this technology. I have come around gradually as I have seen its performance improve to the point where I find it good enough to save me time and effort. So I'm just letting you know that if you have not had that experience, it is available. Perhaps you have simply not tried the best tools.

I'm not accusing, just informing. It doesn't really matter what's going on under the hood. What matters is that it works.

I'm thinking we have a scene for the next Riddick movie here.

Might not have replaced coders but it has completely changed the job. Used to be you had to figure out what you wanted to do, then how, then do it, then tests. Now you just need the "what". The AI figures out the rest. Iterate a bit if you want changes but it's still much faster. Have an idea, prototype it in 10 minutes instead of a week.

Check the economics 101 textbook.

"What you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar." -Jayne Cobb, Firefly