The rise of async AI programming

This works until you get to the point that your actual programming skills atrophy due to lack of use.

Face it, the only reason you can do a decent review is because of years of hard won lessons, not because you have years of reading code without writing any.

What the article describes is:

1. Learn how to describe what you want in an unambiguous dialect of natural language.

2. Submit it to a program that takes a long time to transform that input into a computer language.

3. Review the output for errors.

Sounds like we’ve reinvented compilers. Except they’re really bad and they take forever. Most people don’t have to review the assembly language / bytecode output of their compilers, because we expect them to actually work.

No, it sounds like the work of a product manager, you’re just working with agents rather than with developers.