> AI gives super powers because it saves you an insane amount of typing
I feel like I'm going a little bit more insane whenever folks say this, because one of the primary roles of a software engineer is to develop tools and abstractions to reduce or eliminate boilerplate.
What kind of software are you writing, where generating boilerplate is the limiting factor (and why haven't you fixed that)?
> because one of the primary roles of a software engineer is to develop tools and abstractions to reduce or eliminate boilerplate.
Is it? Says who? Not only do I see entire clans of folk appearing who say ; DRY sucks, just copy/paste, it's easier to read and less prone to break multiple things with one fix vs abstractions that keep functionality restricted to one location, but also; most programmers are there to implement crap their bosses say, that crap almost never includes 'create tools & abstractions' to get there.
I agree with you actually, BUT this is really not what by far most people working in programming believe one of their (primary) roles entail.
I feel like I'm going a little bit more insane whenever folks say this, because one of the primary roles of a software engineer is to develop tools and abstractions to reduce or eliminate boilerplate.
What kind of software are you writing, where generating boilerplate is the limiting factor (and why haven't you fixed that)?